From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources
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Using 1Point3Acres
From the course: Using Public Health Data Sources
Using 1Point3Acres
- The 1Point3Acres website provides aggregated information about the number of COVID-19 cases both in the US and internationally. Johns Hopkins University has included 1Point3Acres as a source from which they get their data. And as we can see here on top under the Dear Users section in green, 1Point3Acres also states that Johns Hopkins University uses their data. Now, if you were to go into the About section to learn more about where their data is coming from, we can see there's an FAQ section that provides additional information about the data sources. And we can see that the fifth question from the top asks the question, Where does your data come from? Here 1Point3Acres clearly states that they use data from COVID tracking as well as Johns Hopkins University rest of the world. Given that that website cited 1Point3Acres as their source of data, it's very unclear as to which organization is collecting data and which…
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