Dimensions of Uncertainty: A spatiotemporal review of five COVID-19 datasets
Summary
COVID-19 case and death data are essential to understanding the pandemic and serve as key inputs for prediction models that inform policy-decisions; consistent information across datasets is critical to ensuring coherent findings. We implement an exploratory data analytic approach to characterize, synthesize, and visualize spatial-temporal dimensions of uncertainty across commonly used datasets for case and death metrics (Johns Hopkins University, the New York Times, USAFacts, and 1Point3Acres). We scrutinize data consistency to assess where and when disagreements occur, potentially indicating underlying uncertainty. We observe differences in cumulative case and death rates to highlight discrepancies and identify spatial patterns.
Associated JCOIN Study Title: Measuring Community Vulnerability to COVID/OUD (051)
Publication Year: 2024
Lead Author: Dylan Halpern
Journal: Cartography and Geographic Information Science