Tracking Covid-19 From Hundreds of Sources, One Extracted Record at a Time | by The NYT Open Team | NYT Open
As of this morning, The New York Times has made more than 9.98 million programmatic requests for Covid-19 data from websites around the world. The data we’re collecting are daily snapshots of the virus’s ebb and flow, including for every U.S. state and thousands of U.S. counties, cities and ZIP codes. You may have seen slices of this data in the daily maps and graphics we publish at The Times, providing cumulative totals and 14-day trends that help readers see their local risk levels and outbreaks. Combined, these pages are the most-viewed collection in the history of nytimes.com. They’re a key component of the package of Covid reporting that won The Times the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Internally, the depth and breadth of the data has been an invaluable reporting tool, helping us tell stories from the very first U.S. cases through the devastation of the winter wave through the first glimmers of good news as vaccines began to roll out. The Times’s coronavirus tracking proj
As of this morning, The New York Times has made more than 9.98 million programmatic requests for Covid-19 data from websites around the world. The data we’re collecting are daily snapshots of the virus’s ebb and flow, including for every U.S. state and thousands of U.S. counties, cities and ZIP codes. You may have seen slices of this data in the daily maps and graphics we publish at The Times, providing cumulative totals and 14-day trends that help readers see their local risk levels and outbreaks. Combined, these pages are the most-viewed collection in the history of nytimes.com. They’re a ke
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