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sfbrigade / data-covid19-sfbayarea

Manual and automated processes of sourcing data for the stop-covid19-sfbayarea project
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HOTFIX: use new CHHS dataset for San Mateo deaths #189

Closed Mr0grog closed 3 years ago

Mr0grog commented 3 years ago

San Mateo County does not provide a timeseries of deaths, so we previously used the state's data portal for that data. The state dataset we were pulling from has been deprecated in favor of one provided by CHHS, and this updates the scraper to use that. Unfortunately, the totals it provides no longer match up with the county's provided totals, but I'm not sure what to do about that at this point other than list it in the meta section. 😞

The old dataset was at: https://data.ca.gov/dataset/covid-19-cases

Fixes #186.

Mr0grog commented 3 years ago

Alternatively, LATimes publishes data at https://github.com/datadesk/california-coronavirus-data and NYTimes at https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/. They both line up with the county’s numbers.

Mr0grog commented 3 years ago

Thanks!