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Web Scraping for Public Health Data

Part of the new normal for many data analytics professionals is being able to obtain Covid-19 data by geographic location. To address this need, today’s post is going to walk through how to scrape the repo for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene using the flexible rvest library to to create a time-series of positive cases by NYC zip code.