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Good to see open data. Should allow programmatic back-filling of data @ishaberry2 and @covid_canada have been collecting manually. Does not yet contain today’s new numbers, hopefully they will improve update frequency.
Would love to see this kind of data from other provinces too. BC used to publish case details in daily briefings, but stopped March 13th. The fine folks at @Data_BC have the expertise and technology to implement an API in a heartbeat, all it takes is political will. cc @adriandix
Added benefit of having clean data like this is that we can immediately pull together descriptive stats. And they are reproducible and can automatically be updated when new data is available.
And since heath region spelling matches StatCan spelling (adding HR_UIDs would be preferential), we can easily merge it with geographic data and census data to better understand how cover-19 affects the population.
Ack, another fix. @StatCan_eng actually does not have a current Health Region geography file, the last one is from 2018 that misses the Huron Perth amalgamation. And the census profile hasn't been updated to the 2018 boundary file, but uses even older Health Regions.
It would seem prudent at a time like this that @StatCan_eng provide up-to-date Health Region geographies and also make a semi-custom tabulation with census profile data at the health region level available.
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