covidcast-package: covidcast: Client for Delphi's COVIDcast API

In covidcast: Client for Delphi's 'COVIDcast Epidata' API

covidcast: Client for Delphi's COVIDcast API

Description

The covidcast package provides access to numerous COVID-19 data streams, updated daily, covering the United States of America. These include publicly reported cases and deaths data, along with data the Delphi research group collects or obtains from partners.

Finding data sources and documentation

The COVIDcast API includes:

• publicly reported COVID case and death data

• insurance claims data reporting on COVID-related doctor's visits and hospitalizations, obtained from health partners

• aggregate results from massive COVID symptom surveys conducted by Delphi

• mobility data aggregated from SafeGraph

• symptom search trends from Google

and numerous other important signals, most available daily at the county level.

Each data stream is identified by its data source and signal names. These are documented on the COVIDcast API website: https://cmu-delphi.github.io/delphi-epidata/api/covidcast_signals.html

Each data stream has a page giving detailed technical documentation on how the data is collected, how it is aggregated, and any limitations or known problems with the data.

Getting started

We recommend browsing the vignettes, which include numerous examples: browseVignettes(package = "covidcast").

See also covidcast_signal() for details on how to obtain COVIDcast data as a data frame.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Alex Reinhart [e-mail] (ORCID)

Authors:

• Taylor Arnold

• Jacob Bien

• Logan Brooks

• Sarah Colquhoun

• David Farrow

• Kathryn Mazaitis

• Ryan Tibshirani

Other contributors:

• Jed Grabman [contributor]

• Pedrito Maynard-Zhang [contributor]

References

A. Reinhart et al., An open repository of real-time COVID-19 indicators. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118, e2111452118 (2021). \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1073/pnas.2111452118")}

See Also

Useful links:

• https://cmu-delphi.github.io/covidcast/covidcastR/

• https://github.com/cmu-delphi/covidcast

• Report bugs at https://github.com/cmu-delphi/covidcast/issues

covidcast documentation built on July 26, 2023, 5:29 p.m.