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Add population per county #5

Open tomquisel opened 4 years ago

tomquisel commented 4 years ago

This allows case rate to be calculated, which is more valuable for detecting counties that are having disproportionately large outbreaks.

cscollett commented 4 years ago

Not sure if this will be helpful down the line, but I've found population data here: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-counties-total.html

Here are the direct links further in the page: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2010-2019/counties/totals/co-est2019-alldata.csv https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/technical-documentation/file-layouts/2010-2019/co-est2019-alldata.pdf

LloydChapman commented 4 years ago

That looks like the best source. There's also this: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=PEP_2018_PEPANNRES&src=pt but it's out of date and may just contain the same data anyway. A daily population estimate would be a fantastic addition to the data!