Demo of US County-Level Data from the NY Times

demo of the daily summary of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) total cases and deaths by county

covid19nytimes_counties_demo

Format

A tibble object

Source

New York Times, "We’re Sharing Coronavirus Case Data for Every U.S. County" article and https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-datadata repository

Details

The dataset contains the daily summary of Coronavirus cases (total confirmed and total deaths), by county from the NY Times.

To get the latest data, use refresh_covid19nytimes_states.

Examples

data(covid19nytimes_states_demo)

require(dplyr)
#> Loading required package: dplyr
#> 
#> Attaching package: ‘dplyr’
#> The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

# Get top confirmed cases by county,state
covid19nytimes_states_demo %>%
  filter(data_type == "cases_total") %>%
  filter(value == max(value))
#> # A tibble: 1 x 7
#>   date       location location_type location_code location_code_t… data_type
#>   <date>     <chr>    <chr>         <chr>         <chr>            <chr>    
#> 1 2020-04-12 New York state         36            fips_code        cases_to…
#> # … with 1 more variable: value <dbl>