3,000+ US counties and county-equivalents are documented with daily cumulative counts of COVID-19 cases and deaths. This New York Times repository tracks the pandemic's progression from January 2020 through the present across all 50 states and territories.
Use Cases
- Train time-series models to predict future infection trends using the `date` and `cases` columns
- Create geospatial visualizations of mortality rates by joining the `fips` column with external shapefiles
- Compare public health outcomes across different jurisdictions using the `state` and `deaths` features
- Calculate daily new case rates by computing the difference between consecutive rows in the cumulative `cases` column
Strengths
- Contains daily time-series data for `cases` and `deaths` at the local level
- Includes `fips` codes to enable precise geographic mapping and census data merging
- Covers historical data points starting from the first reported US case in January 2020
- Categorizes data by `county` and `state` for hierarchical regional analysis