Unlike aggregators such as the Mercury News and New York Times, Marin Health & Human Services excludes inmates at San Quentin State Prison, who are counted by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation along with inmates at other state prisons. The county’s dashboard does include San Quentin inmates in a couple Datawrapper charts, but this data is only a mirror of CDCR’s dashboard.
This project seems to have a preference for local government sources over statewide, aggregated sources such as the California Department of Public Health, so I think it would be appropriate to use the county’s data where possible. That said, it’s important to count these inmates somewhere. How are inmates in other California counties and other states being counted?
jzohrab
commented
4 years ago
Added a source for Marin County, California, that uses the following datasets from this ArcGIS FeatureServer included in the county’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Unlike aggregators such as the Mercury News and New York Times, Marin Health & Human Services excludes inmates at San Quentin State Prison, who are counted by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation along with inmates at other state prisons. The county’s dashboard does include San Quentin inmates in a couple Datawrapper charts, but this data is only a mirror of CDCR’s dashboard.
This project seems to have a preference for local government sources over statewide, aggregated sources such as the California Department of Public Health, so I think it would be appropriate to use the county’s data where possible. That said, it’s important to count these inmates somewhere. How are inmates in other California counties and other states being counted?
Potentially fixes #358.