{"id":2434,"date":"2020-08-01T05:47:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capecovid.com\/?page_id=2434"},"modified":"2020-08-10T07:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T07:50:22","slug":"technical","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/?page_id=2434","title":{"rendered":"Technical &#038; Troubling"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2434\" class=\"elementor elementor-2434\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-560e299 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section\" data-id=\"560e299\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f078f62 elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column\" data-id=\"f078f62\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap  elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d249fa8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d249fa8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p style=\"margin: 0pt 30pt 25pt 30pt\">\nThe data displayed in the Massachusetts and the Barnstable County charts at <a href=\"http:\/\/capecovid.com\/?page_id=514\">MASSACHUSETTS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/capecovid.com\/?page_id=760\">CASES<\/a> all come from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-response-reporting\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-response-reporting<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 30pt 25pt 30pt\">\nBoth sets of charts show data the Mass. DPH updates daily in raw data files &ndash; <em>County.csv<\/em> for the Barnstable County charts &ndash;  <em>CasesByDate.csv<\/em>, <em>DateofDeath.csv<\/em>, and <em>TestingByDate<\/em> for the Massachusetts charts.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 30pt 25pt 30pt\">\nBecause <em>County.csv<\/em> contains daily case counts for every county in Massachusetts, I was able to add the county-specific numbers (14 of them, one for each county) to come up with daily case counts for the commonwealth as a whole. Theoretically, the chart of those data should look the same as the Massachusetts case-count chart derived from <em>CasesByDate.csv<\/em>. However, they look quite different.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 30pt 25pt 30pt\">\nThe first chart below displays the Massachusetts daily case counts derived from <em>County.csv<\/em>, while the second chart displays the Massachusetts daily case counts derived from <em>CasesByDate.csv<\/em>. I cannot explain the difference. However, they both show an upward trend over the past couple of months. The 546 new cases of COVID-19 reported on August 4 shown in the first chart was the highest daily case count since 511 new cases were reported on June 11.  The second chart below shows 538 new cases on July 30, which was the largest daily case count since early June.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 30pt 25pt 30pt\">\nThis upward trend in case counts is also seen in the third chart below, which smooths out the trend by plotting the 7-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases derived from <em>County.csv<\/em>. This troublesome trend over the past month or so is also seen in charts of individual Massachusetts counties at <a href=\"http:\/\/capecovid.com\/?page_id=2119\">OTHER COUNTIES<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 30pt 15pt 30pt\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capecovid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/149-massachusettsx.png\" alt=\u201dMassachusetts Cases from County Data\" \/>\n<\/br><\/br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capecovid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/149mc.png\" alt=\u201dMassachusetts Cases\" \/>\n<\/br><\/br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capecovid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/149-massachusetts-7x.png\" alt=\u201dMassachusetts Cases from County Data, 7-day moving average\" \/>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The data displayed in the Massachusetts and the Barnstable County charts at MASSACHUSETTS and CASES all come from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health at https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/covid-19-response-reporting. Both sets of charts show data the Mass. DPH updates daily in raw data files &ndash; County.csv for the Barnstable County charts &ndash; CasesByDate.csv, DateofDeath.csv, and TestingByDate for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/?page_id=2434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Technical &#038; Troubling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2434","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2434\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capecovid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}