Pittsburgh COVID-related Google & Twitter incidence rates

A data set containing the 30-week incidence rates of COVID related categories from week 1 starting from June 1, 2020 to week 30 that ended in the last Sunday of the year in Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The data columns are introduced below. One quick note about the columns of the data set: week_start as a column is present in the data set for illustration purposes, reminding users what week column is. In other words, it does not participate any visualization.

Usage

pitts_tg

Format

A data frame with 270 rows and 6 columns:

msa

Metropolitan statistical area (Pittsburgh only).

week

week 1 to week 30.

week_start

The Monday date of the week started.

category

9 Covid-related categories in total.

Twitter

weekly tweets percentage (%) in the MSA falling into each category.

Google

weekly Google search percentage (%) in the MSA falling into each category.

Source

Just like states_tg, Google is processed from Google Health API, and Twitter from Meltwater, a Twitter vendor. Both data sources are processed by the authors of the package.