A glimpse at COVID-19 cases in some Maryland ZIP codes

A publicly-available MD COVID-19 metrics that I didn’t investigate much is cases per ZIP code. I created a dashboard where you can highlight one zip code at a time. Tyler Fogarty built a cool Treemap Explorer. Silver Chips has a nice heatmap of all zip codes as part of their extensive dashboard (a bit like the MDH dashboard). How can we make sense of all this? A classical way to see it is to look at the daily number of positive cases, similarly to what I did for counties or the state. ...

May 31, 2020 · 2 min · jepoirrier

Trend in COVID-19 cases by Zip code in Maryland

Since the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) started to display number of COVID-19 cases for each Zip code in its dashboard, I was wondering how to display this information in a nice way. The MDH display the information as a map - very nice but it lacks from where each Zip code came from: is the number of cases increasing or decreasing? Following on my busy chart with the evolution of all Zip codes (and highlighting just one of them - that may not be the one you are interested in, see previous post), I created a simple dashboard where you can select the Zip code you are interested in and see how cases are evolving. You can play with it here: https://jepoirrier.shinyapps.io/md-coronavirus-zip-app/ (screenshot below). Enjoy! ...

April 27, 2020 · 1 min · jepoirrier