new-york-times.md

Meta Data Name: New York Times

Last Modified: 2/23/2021

Author: Dylan Halpern

Data Location:

GeoDaCenter/covid/public/csv

• County
  • Cases: covid_confirmed_nyt.csv
  • Deaths: covid_deaths_nyt.csv
• State
  • Cases: covid_confirmed_nyt_state.csv
  • Deaths: covid_deaths_nyt_state.csv

Data Source(s) Description:

The New York Times is publishing their on-going COVID-19 data, available here.

Direct links: States | Counties

Description of Data Processing:

• State and county confirmed case and death data are taken directly from the NYT data and transposed into time-series.

Key Variable and Definitions:

covid_confirmed_nyt.csv

Variable	Variable ID in .csv	Description
FIPS Code (Join Column)	fips	County level fips code to join to county geospatial data
Confirmed Cases (Time series)	ISO Format Date (eg.2020-01-22)	Cumulative cases for given geography (county)

covid_confirmed_nyt_state.csv

Variable	Variable ID in .csv	Description
FIPS Code (Join Column)	fips	County level fips code to join to county geospatial data
Confirmed Cases (Time series)	ISO Format Date (eg.2020-01-22)	Cumulative cases for given geography (state)

covid_deaths_nyt.csv

Variable	Variable ID in .csv	Description
FIPS Code (Join Column)	fips	County level fips code to join to county geospatial data
COVID-19 Deaths (Time series)	ISO Format Date (eg.2020-01-22)	Cumulative deaths attributed to COVID for given geography (county)

covid_confirmed_nyt_state.csv

Variable	Variable ID in .csv	Description
FIPS Code (Join Column)	fips	County level fips code to join to county geospatial data
COVID-19 Deaths (Time series)	ISO Format Date (eg.2020-01-22)	Cumulative deaths attributed to COVID for given geography (state)

Description of Data Source Tables:

See the New York Times Repo for additional information.

Data Limitations:

No limitations to report.

Comments/Notes:

n/a