diff --git a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/ght.md b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/ght.md index 8e301bc2e..097604901 100644 --- a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/ght.md +++ b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/ght.md @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ arbitrary units (its scale is meaningless); larger numbers represent higher numbers of COVID-related searches. These signals were updated daily until March 8, 2021. After that date, Google -dropped support for Google Health Trends access. We recommend the [Google -Symptoms source](google-symptoms.md) as an alternative, which provides +dropped support for Google Health Trends access. We recommend the +[Google Symptoms source](google-symptoms.md) as an alternative, which provides finer-grained measures of search volume at the symptom level. | Signal | Description | diff --git a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/hhs.md b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/hhs.md index 1d2fd6dcd..fd1e14613 100644 --- a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/hhs.md +++ b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/hhs.md @@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ resource usage in different ways. This indicator makes available several commonly-used combinations of those columns, aggregated geographically. In particular, we include the sum of all adult and pediatric COVID-19 hospital admissions. This -sum is used as the "ground truth" for hospitalizations by the [COVID-19 -Forecast Hub](https://github.com/reichlab/covid19-forecast-hub/blob/master/data-processed/README.md#hospitalizations). +sum is used as the "ground truth" for hospitalizations by the [COVID-19 Forecast Hub](https://github.com/reichlab/covid19-forecast-hub/blob/master/data-processed/README.md#hospitalizations). | Signal | Geography | Resolution | Description | @@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ the HHS state timeseries dataset: * `previous_day_admission_[adult|pediatric]_covid_[confirmed|suspected]` -The `confirmed` signal is the sum of the two `confirmed` columns: +The `confirmed` signal is the sum of the two `confirmed` columns: * adult * pediatric @@ -95,6 +94,6 @@ published by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services under an [Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/). The ODbL permits sharing, transformation, and redistribution of data or derived -works so long as all public uses are distributed under the ODbL and +works so long as all public uses are distributed under the ODbL and attributed to the source. For more details, consult the official license text. diff --git a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/nchs-mortality.md b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/nchs-mortality.md index 949864c9a..3703879d3 100644 --- a/docs/api/covidcast-signals/nchs-mortality.md +++ b/docs/api/covidcast-signals/nchs-mortality.md @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ grand_parent: COVIDcast Epidata API This data source of national provisional death counts is based on death certificate data received and coded by the National Center for Health Statistics [(NCHS)](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm). This data is -different from the death data available from [USAFacts](usa-facts.md) and [JHU -CSSE](jhu-csse.md): deaths are reported by the date they occur, not the date +different from the death data available from [USAFacts](usa-facts.md) and +[JHU CSSE](jhu-csse.md): deaths are reported by the date they occur, not the date they are reported by local health departments, and data is frequently reissued as additional death certificates from recent weeks are received and tabulated. diff --git a/docs/api/covidcast_geography.md b/docs/api/covidcast_geography.md index 1f3340a7b..fc7a02071 100644 --- a/docs/api/covidcast_geography.md +++ b/docs/api/covidcast_geography.md @@ -48,12 +48,11 @@ by their original sources at geographic resolutions which are too coarse. ## Small Sample Sizes and "Megacounties" Most sources do not report the same amount of data for every county; for -example, since the survey sources rely on survey responses submitted each day, counties with small populations +example, since the survey sources rely on survey responses submitted each day, counties with small populations may have comparatively few survey responses. We do not report individual county estimates when small sample sizes would make estimates unreliable or would allow identification of respondents, violating privacy and confidentiality agreements. -Additional considerations for specific signals are discussed in the [source and -signal documentation](covidcast_signals.md). +Additional considerations for specific signals are discussed in the [source and signal documentation](covidcast_signals.md). On each day, in each state, we collect the data from all counties with insufficient data to be individually reported. These counties are combined into diff --git a/docs/api/missing_codes.md b/docs/api/missing_codes.md index 6e252024f..1ec727adc 100644 --- a/docs/api/missing_codes.md +++ b/docs/api/missing_codes.md @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ corresponds to the `value` column). The integer codes are as follows | Code | Name | Description | | --- | --- | --- | -| 0 | DEFAULT | This is the default value for when the field is not missing. | +| 0 | NOT MISSING | This is the default value for when the field is not missing. | | 1 | NOT APPLICABLE | This value is used when the field is not expected to have a value (e.g. stderr for a signal that is not estimated from a sample). | | 2 | REGION EXCEPTION | This value is used when the field is not reported because the particular indicator does not serve the geographical region requested. | -| 3 | PRIVACY | This value is used when the field has been censored for data privacy reasons. This could be due to reasons such as low sample sizes or simply a requirement from our data partners. | +| 3 | CENSORED | This value is used when the field has been censored for data privacy reasons. This could be due to reasons such as low sample sizes or simply a requirement from our data partners. | | 4 | DELETED | This value is used when the field was present in previous issues, but is no longer reported. Deletions can arise due to bug fixes, changing censorship requirements, or data corrections from the source. | -| 5 | UNKNOWN | This value is used when the field is missing, but does not fall into any of the categories above. | +| 5 | OTHER | This value is used when the field is missing, but does not fall into any of the categories above. | These codes are supplied as part of the `delphi_utils` Python library (see [here](https://pypi.org/project/delphi-utils/)). diff --git a/docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md b/docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md index 2d6305ba4..f3ab55dd4 100644 --- a/docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md +++ b/docs/symptom-survey/contingency-tables.md @@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ derived indicators will be included in aggregations for that period but will only use a partial week or month of data. CSVs for the month of January 2021 only use data from January 6-31 due to a -[definitional change in a major vaccine item on January -6](./coding.md#new-items-2). +[definitional change in a major vaccine item on January 6](./coding.md#new-items-2). ### Regions @@ -150,9 +149,8 @@ indicator columns will be marked as missing (`NA`) for that group. ## Indicators -The files contain [weighted -estimates](../api/covidcast-signals/fb-survey.md#survey-weighting) of the -percent of respondents who fulfill one or several criteria. Estimates are +The files contain [weighted estimates](../api/covidcast-signals/fb-survey.md#survey-weighting) +of the percent of respondents who fulfill one or several criteria. Estimates are broken out by state, age, gender, race, ethnicity, occupation, and health conditions.