LA County COVID-19 Data Set and Tools for Data Scientists

This repository contains code (in the form of Python scripts) to obtain and visualize data about confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in the cities and communities within LA County. It also includes sample data obtained from these scripts as well as sample plots.

We also post the latest plots every day on the following website: CoVID-19 Plots for LA County.

Data Source

The Los Angeles Department of Public Health do a press release every day, which contains information about the number of CoVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County and its neoghbourhood. We provide a pointer to some of the press releases that were used for scraping the data below:

Scripts

The scripts folder contains two scripts. The script titled "fetch_and_restore.py" gets the data from the above web sites and store them in a JSON file for further processing, visualization, and analytics purposes. For visualization purposes, we provide another script (visualization_COVID.py). These scripts have been created to process the press releases from starting 16th of March to 27th of March.

Data

For those who are interested only in analysing the data, we provide the data in the CSV and JSON formats. In the JSON, the keys represent the "day" in March and the values denote the cases in each community in LA county.

Plots

We have generated plots using the data retrieved from LA county press releases. These plots show the time-series data for confirmed COVID-19 positive cases (daily) and fatalities in the communities and cities within LA County that are showing the most number of cases.

Questions