Data Science Data Focus — Scraped Data from Kinsa Health Weather Map (Smart Thermometer Time-Series Data by US County) Featured on NY Times for COVID19 response

I quickly scraped and aggregated the data from https://healthweather.us/ if anyone would like the data. Kinsa https://healthweather.us/ clearly did all the work here. I’m just making the data accessible.

https://healthweather.us/

Get the Data

• Excel file: https://github.com/nygeog/kinsa_health_weather_data/blob/master/data/kinsa_health_data.xlsx
• CSV file: https://github.com/nygeog/kinsa_health_weather_data/blob/master/data/kinsa_health_data.csv

Code

• GitHub: https://github.com/nygeog/kinsa_health_weather_data
• Jupyter Notebook: https://github.com/nygeog/kinsa_health_weather_data/blob/master/kinsa_health_weather_data.ipynb
• Notebook on Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/nygeog/kinsa_health_weather_data/blob/master/kinsa_health_weather_data.ipynb

NY Times Article Mentioning Kinsa Health Smart Thermometer Time-Series Data

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-restrictions-fevers.html

The company, Kinsa Health, which produces internet-connected thermometers, first created a national map of fever levels on March 22 and was able to spot the trend within a day. Since then, data from the health departments of New York State and Washington State have buttressed the finding, making it clear that social distancing is saving lives.

The trend has become so obvious that on Sunday, President Trump extended until the end of April his recommendation that Americans stay in lockdown. Mr. Trump had hoped to lift restrictions by Easter and send Americans back to work.

Kinsa’s thermometers upload the user’s temperature readings to a centralized database; the data enable the company to track fevers across the United States.

Owners of Kinsa’s thermometers can type other symptoms into a cellphone app after taking their temperature. The app offers basic advice on whether they should seek medical attention.

Kinsa has more than one million thermometers in circulation and has been getting up to 162,000 daily temperature readings since Covid-19 began spreading in the country.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-restrictions-fevers.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Kinsa Health Weather Map

https://healthweather.us/

NOTE: Kinda Health Weather Map does not include data for Alaska or Hawaii.

FYI: The data seems to be projected for future dates. I’m not sure of the methodology, but can look into it if anyone is interested.

Kinsa Health Map Data and Methods Screenshot

Thanks. Please message me if there’s any data you’d like to see scraped or aggregated. https://twitter.com/nygeog