Question about getting data on other countries

[manisci]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the available open-source data streams (like jhu number of cases) for Canada using covidcast so that they are already preprocessed and time-stamped (I want to be able to use the 'as_of' parameter). I am also thinking of adding signals from my own project in the same format for my analysis. Is this is a good place to start?

https://github.com/cmu-delphi/operations/blob/main/docs/backend_development.md

Thank you :)

[krivard]

Hello, and thank you for your interest!

If you have data that you'd like to analyze alongside data from COVIDcast, our packages do allow you to import such data in the right format. For example, in R, we have a tutorial here.

If you're interested in extending our COVIDcast API to contain data outside the United States, unfortunately, the vast majority of the effort required for having a dataset included in covidcast is actually on day-to-day maintenance: dealing with data delays, data entry errors, and other unexpected outages. For this reason, Delphi is unable to support international datasets at this time. We are however happy to advise other groups on setting up their own instance. Please contact me directly at krivard@cs.cmu.edu for details.