In vqv/stat5730covid19: COVID-19 Data and Tools for STAT 5730

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stat5730covid19

This is an rough and unpolished R data package for the students of STAT 5730. It contains data COVID-19 data from the Johns Hopkins CSSE group, The COVID Tracking Project, the New York Times, the state executive orders shared Google sheet collected by the Spring 2020 STAT 5730 class, the Google Mobility Report, and other related data. The data will be updated regularly for now, so please reinstall the package to get new data.

Where possible, I have included FIPS codes for the geographic regions of the United States. This is a standardized code used by the U.S. federal government to identify states (with 2 digits) and counties (with 5 digits). In many cases, you can use the FIPS code as a key for joining tables.

Also included with the package are county- and state-level estimates of population, density, and median income from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2018. The GEOID variable in the data can be treated as a FIPS code.

Installation

You can install stat5730covid19 from Github with:

remotes::install_github("vqv/stat5730covid19")

Note that you will need to have the remotes package installed in order to use remotes::install_github().

Examples

library(stat5730covid19)

JHU CSSE

Source: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

The CSSE group at Johns Hopkins has been collecting data on the global COVID-19 pandemic. Their data includes number of cases and deaths in different regions globally.

csse_global

csse_us

csse_lookup

COVID Tracking Project

Source: https://covidtracking.com

The COVID Tracking Project was initiated by journalists at The Atlantic magazine. The data provides daily case and death counts at the state level, as well as numbers of tests and negative results, and hospital data.

covidtracking

New York Times

Source: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data

Journalists and data scientists at the New York Times have been working on collecting daily case and death counts at the U.S. county level.

nyt_county

STAT 5730

The students of Spring 2020 STAT 5730 collected data on the executive orders made by U.S. state governments mandating school closures, shelter in place (stay at home), and travel restrictions.

state_orders

Google Mobility

Source: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/index.html?hl=en

Google is temporarily providing estimates of mobility in different locations that are based on anonymized data collected from users who have enabled location history. The values are percent change from a baseline median value on the same day of the week during a 5 week period from the beginning of the year.

Notes from Google:

Location accuracy and the understanding of categorized places varies from region to region, so we don’t recommend using this data to compare changes between countries, or between regions with different characteristics (e.g. rural versus urban areas).