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Mashup Score: 44Analysis & updates | How We Entered COVID-19 Testing and Outcomes Data Every Day for a Year - 3 year(s) ago
We set up a set of roles and a shift system to carefully gather and inspect the data we published.
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Mashup Score: 49
The COVID Tracking Project began collecting data in March 2020, with a few volunteers entering three metrics for 50 states into a spreadsheet manually. It grew into a large organization collecting data across 35 metrics for 56 states and territories up until March 2021. For much of the past year, this data was the most complete COVID-19 dataset across all US states.Because of the heterogeneous…
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Manual data collection was at the core of the @covidtracking process throughout the past year. But our data collection process did evolve to include significant automation. Here we explain how we used automation and the issues we encountered: https://t.co/kmwi8izFL7
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Mashup Score: 137
You might think that The COVID Tracking Project would have a lot of data about our volunteers. We don’t. That lack of data is at least partly by design―we wanted to function more like a porous online community than a rigid formal organization. This was an emergency response effort, after all. We didn’t want to ask for too much information from people up front to avoid barriers to entry. We didn’t…
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More than 800 volunteers performed tens of thousands of hours of work this past year to make our data collection and analysis work possible. Here’s an in-depth look at how we welcomed, trained, and supported our volunteers. https://t.co/OJqbJyLZXJ
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Mashup Score: 70
The federal government improved its state and county-level COVID-19 PCR testing data since we analyzed it in February. Here’s an update on those changes and what we hope to see next for the data.
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State by state, federal COVID-19 testing data is getting better. Over the last few months, we have observed federal efforts to address many of the dataset’s most pressing problems. https://t.co/Vd92w6lIqr
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Mashup Score: 7Analysis & updates | Federal Testing Data’s Last Mile - 3 year(s) ago
Federal testing data is already more standardized and more detailed than the data we compile from states can ever be. But in some jurisdictions, state-provided data still provides a more comprehensive picture of testing volume.
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Throughout the pandemic, the federal government has struggled to count COVID-19 tests. Its dataset has long shown signs of infrastructural problems: https://t.co/MGFsc1Ilqw
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Mashup Score: 50
While The COVID Tracking Project (CTP) will soon come to a close, we’ve had an outsized impact in our more than year of existence. For much of the project, we were laser-focused on gathering and analyzing the data, and we didn’t realize the full extent of our reach. It wasn’t until we began to wind down the project and end our data collection that we began to examine where and how our data was…
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We’d like to hear from you: How have our data and analysis helped you? https://t.co/Gz3dIobCU2
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For most of the project, we’ve been laser-focused on gathering data. We recently began a process to understand *how* our data has been used. Here’s what we found. https://t.co/Gz3dIobCU2
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Mashup Score: 120
Over the past year, The COVID Tracking Project relied on state websites to compile a national snapshot of the pandemic. But what we encountered was messy, because each dashboard worked differently. With little guidance from the federal government, states were left to make their own decisions about how to compile and present the numbers. This lack of cohesion led to sweeping inconsistencies across…
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As researchers with a national lens, we hope this analysis might help policymakers and health officials to identify common problems with gathering the data and target improvements moving forward. https://t.co/wHdZBrf9ME
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With little guidance from the feds, states have had to make their own decisions about compiling and presenting COVID-19 data, leading to sweeping inconsistencies. Here are some of the key reporting problems we found. https://t.co/wHdZBrf9ME
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Mashup Score: 84Analysis & updates | Releasing Our Annotations on State COVID-19 Current Hospitalizations Data - 3 year(s) ago
Current hospitalizations have been one of the most helpful and reliable metrics for understanding the pandemic’s effects across the country. This metric is not subject to the same kinds of backlogs and lags in case, testing, and death data reporting, which makes it indispensable for understanding outbreaks in near real time. But like all the metrics in our dataset compiled from states, it has…
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Today we’re releasing research on hospitalization data definitions. Hospitalizations are one of the most critical metrics for understanding the state of the pandemic. https://t.co/0bRyer4wuz
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Mashup Score: 16Data Annotations - 3 year(s) ago
The COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete testing data available for US states and territories.
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See the full annotations here: https://t.co/Hk9QWZGPF2
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Mashup Score: 176Analysis & updates | How Not to Interpret COVID-19 Data - 3 year(s) ago
Although The COVID Tracking Project has ceased data collection, we’ve published a series of explainers about federal COVID data and held trainings on how to use that data. More federal data has been released nearly every week this month, and we remain confident that the federal data ecosystem will continue to improve. We’ve also noticed that over the past few weeks, newsrooms of all sizes—and…
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Read all our advice from @kissane and @jessicamalaty here: https://t.co/DTlE4myX1e
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So today, we’re offering a brief cheat sheet on avoiding some of the most common errors we’ve seen. https://t.co/DTlE4myX1e
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In order to do this, we set up a shift system, a set of roles, and a rigorous process of checking and double-checking every data point. Here’s a closer look at how our Data Entry team operated, and what we learned after a year of entering data: https://t.co/2QwVlUq5PW