{"id":1395,"date":"2020-03-29T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2020-03-29T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T16:54:30","slug":"covid-19-coronavirus-dataset-for-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/29\/covid-19-coronavirus-dataset-for-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 \/ Coronavirus dataset for Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After seeing some journalists talk about the lack of a comprehensive dataset coming from the State, I did what I usually do in these situations and made some phone calls.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Is there a table anywhere charting Indiana&#8217;s (and its major counties) cases and deaths on a daily basis &#8211; i.e. showing the trends? Should the State add this to its dashboard? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MbZ0KsvYaN\">https:\/\/t.co\/MbZ0KsvYaN<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 Indiana Law Blog (@indianalawblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indianalawblog\/status\/1243178583679471617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I called the main information line (317-233-1325) for the Indiana Department of Health.\u00a0 I spoke to the extremely nice and helpful administrator who said it would probably be best if I spoke with Megan Wade-Taxter.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t answer, but I did leave a voicemail.<\/p>\n<p>Megan is the Media Relations Coordinator, Office of Public Affairs for the Indiana State Department of Health.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Megan Wade-Taxter<br \/>Media Relations Coordinator, Office of Public Affairs<br \/>317-233-7104<br \/><a href=\"mailto:mewadetaxter@isdh.in.gov\">mewadetaxter@isdh.in.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While that was simmering, I read that Nikki Kelli stated that some of the data was embedded in the <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.in.gov\/site\/isdh?duration=30days&amp;prev=30days\">News Releases from the ISHD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I have the releases they send every day I think. I just don&#8217;t have time to input them. All news releases should be here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AXsxN4Uezt\">https:\/\/t.co\/AXsxN4Uezt<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 Niki Kelly (@nkellyatJG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nkellyatJG\/status\/1243182534705504261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I also tapped some development friends to make a simple script to parse out the data from the same news releases.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it only took a few minutes to get a working one from my friend Zachary (<a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/blackary\">his GitHub<\/a>).\u00a0 Thank you again, Blackary!<\/p>\n<p>I then took an hour and launched this Google Sheet, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1KjPZFN_6YF-bM5wax_wfUXP5NbPhJWIkCbCQJrKwsDA\/edit#gid=0\">Indiana COVID-19 \/ Coronavirus Open Dataset,<\/a> that houses the information.<\/p>\n<p>I heard back later in the day from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/isdh\/18934.htm\">Joint Information Center<\/a>.\u00a0 As of this morning on March 29th, I have not seen any additional data made available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/336.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing some journalists talk about the lack of a comprehensive dataset coming from the State, I did what I usually do in these situations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-data","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}