Information on locations in the COVID-19 Forecast Hub

Data set with available locations for the US hub

data(hub_locations)

hub_locations

Format

A data frame with information and metadata about national, state, and county locations for the US. 3,200 observations on the following 6 variables.

fips

the FIPS code for each location

location_name

A non-abbreviated name for each location

population

the population of each location, taken from the JHU CSSE dataset

geo_type

geographical level, either "state" or "county", should match covidcast API definition

geo_value

two-character lowercase abbreviation for each state or a five-character fips code, to match covidcast API definition

abbreviation

two-character uppercase state abbreviation (i.e. the postal abbreviations) for each location

A data frame with 3200 rows and 6 columns:

fips

FIPS code

location_name

Location name

population

Location population

geo_type

Type of location

geo_value

Location abbreviation or FIPS code

abbreviation

Corresponding state abbrevaition

full_location_name

Full location name with correponding state

Source

JHU CSSE COVID Dashboard (https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data), covidcast API (https://github.com/cmu-delphi/covidcast), COVID-19 Forecast Hub (https://covid19forecasthub.org/).