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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon nytimes

Question: Mask-wearing data

Open c3-robertyoung opened this issue 4 years ago • 9 comments

Will you be publishing the data used in today's article tracking mask-wearing behavior at a county level over time? This would be enormously helpful for research.

c3-robertyoung avatar Jul 17 '20 17:07 c3-robertyoung

Yes I'd be interested in this as well.

isaacmg avatar Jul 17 '20 19:07 isaacmg

It was provided by Dynata's Survey, but I have not been able to find any public data available for it.

armsp avatar Jul 18 '20 08:07 armsp

I was hoping for the same.

cfhp1 avatar Jul 18 '20 14:07 cfhp1

Hi folks, we are considering it. Please keep in mind that preparing, publishing and maintaining a data set for public consumption here is a good deal of additional work beyond what it takes for us to acquire, analyze and publish stories based on that data. We are most likely to do that if it publishing that data is a necessity for unique scientific or policy-making work that could not otherwise be done.

Since there are many additional data sets that have been requested other than this one, hearing about specific research projects people are undertaking (i.e., not just exploratory data analysis or searching for patterns to see what exists) would help us prioritize.

albertsun avatar Jul 19 '20 23:07 albertsun

Hi @albertsun. We at @CoronaWhy are currently developing machine learning models to forecast COVID-19 hospitalizations and new cases at the county level as well as causal models to attribute causation. We would like to feed in data that captures mask wearing usage (ideally at the county level) as we would believe that this could help improve performance. We would also like to be able to simulate different scenarios with respect to mask usage.

isaacmg avatar Jul 21 '20 02:07 isaacmg

Hi @albertsun! At Carnegie Mellon we are working on a project to model compliance with non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) policies and its impact on epidemiological predictions. We are focusing specifically on how people react to mask-wearing policies according to various underlying psychological and cognitive factors. Our goal is to integrate cognitive models predicting behavior in response to NPI policies with epidemiological models to achieve an end-to-end simulation linking information spread, adaptive behavior and disease transmission. If you need additional information please let me know.

ConstantinosM avatar Jul 22 '20 01:07 ConstantinosM

Masks wearing are [unfortunately] at the intersection of politics and Coronavirus.

Political donors by district and NYT's today article could be an interesting complementary dataset, to see if mask wearing and political side actually have suspected correlation.

hugolpz avatar Jul 24 '20 17:07 hugolpz

Can anyone outline the definition of "neighborhood" in this data set? It does not appear to be zip code and definitely is not FIPS county.

tsantos935 avatar Jul 24 '20 19:07 tsantos935

Hi all,

Thanks for your comments and describing your use cases.

We've posted a public release of this data here: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/mask-use

albertsun avatar Jul 29 '20 02:07 albertsun