nel_vid: NY Times COVID case data for mid-Atlantic USA in first two...

nel_vidR Documentation

NY Times COVID case data for mid-Atlantic USA in first two pandemic years, with additional columns

Description

A dataset containing COVID cases and deaths for 6 US states and territories from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2022.

Usage

nel_vid

Format

Data frame with 4368 observations of 11 variables:

  • date Date, YYYY-MM-DD

  • state Character, name of US state or territory

  • cases Integer, reported daily COVID cases

  • cases_avg Numeric, rolling daily average number of cases within "state" in previous 2 weeks

  • cases_avg_per_100k Numeric, rolling daily average case rate per 100k residents in previous 2 weeks

  • deaths Integer, reported daily COVID-related deaths

  • deaths_avg Numeric, rolling daily average number of deaths within "state" in previous 2-weeks

  • deaths_avg_per_100k Numeric, rolling daily average death rate per 100k residents in previous 2 weeks

  • ref_case_rate Numeric, rolling daily average case rate per 100k residents in reference 2-week time period

  • nel_rate Numeric, case rate rescaled to reference and expressed in "nels"

  • prop_rate Numeric, case rate rescaled to reference and expressed as a proprtion of the reference rate

@source Data from The New York Times, based on reports from state and local health agencies. https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data


mikeroswell/ratioScales documentation built on April 1, 2024, 10:38 p.m.