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Measure the disparities of COVID demographics #19

Open bennek2 opened 4 years ago

bennek2 commented 4 years ago

The goal of this issue is to look at racial disparities in covid. 1) Find percentage of demographic groups (like non-hispanic blacks) for a region that's x 2) Find the background rate for that region thats y 3) Calculate the disparity index log(x/y) 4) Make a neat visualizations of this 5) The visualization could address many different factors at once for example you could make an infographic that showed racial mix, age mix, urban rural? or whatever data you can get your hands on.
6) or it could compare the disparities in different regions like states Here is a data source for NYC https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page#download

olyerickson commented 4 years ago

@owencahan See e.g. https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Fatalities?%3Aembed=yes&%3Atoolbar=no&%3Atabs=n

olyerickson commented 4 years ago

See also https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Map?%3Aembed=yes&%3Atoolbar=no&%3Atabs=n

olyerickson commented 4 years ago

RE the fatalities, we have to manually scrape that each morning :(