COVID-19 Case and Death Trends for Kansas City, Missouri

Case and death data related to COVID-19, including daily new and cumulative totals. The dataset is archived and will no longer be updated, with data current as of August 10, 2020. It was published by data.kcmo.org via the Socrata platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling the growth rate of infections using New Cases and Total Cases over the Date column.
• Analyzing the lag and correlation between cases and fatalities using New Deaths and Total Deaths.
• Creating time-series visualizations of pandemic progression with Date, Total Cases, and Total Deaths.

Strengths

• Provides five core epidemiological metrics: New Deaths, Date, Total Cases, New Cases, Total Deaths.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats: CSV, JSON, XML, RDF.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data is archived and current only as of August 10, 2020, limiting analysis to that historical period.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

data.kcmo.org

Collection Method

Likely compiled from local public health reporting.

Time Range

Data current as of August 10, 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2023-12-28 21:23:16; dataset is archived and will not be updated.

Geography

Likely Kansas City, Missouri, based on the source domain.