COVID Tracking Project records MSS 2022-74 MSS 2022-74
Alexander Duryee and Kevin Miller
Funding for The COVID Tracking Project Archive was provided by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Sloan grant G-2022-17133).
University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections
2023-05-05
530 Parnassus Ave
Room 524
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
libraryarchives@ucsf.edu
Contributing Institution:
University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections
Title: COVID Tracking Project records
Creator:
COVID Tracking Project
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 2022-74
Physical Description:
439.74 Gigabytes
640,295 digital files
Date (inclusive): 2020-2022
Abstract: The COVID Tracking Project was a volunteer organization launched from The Atlantic and dedicated to collecting and publishing
the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Their records include data products and sources,
blog and social media posts, correspondence, internal communications, and team documents. Technical infrastructure, such as
data entry and quality tools, public code repositories, and internal databases are also present.
Language of Material: English .
Biographical / Historical
The COVID Tracking Project was a network of volunteers that compiled, managed, and published state- and territory-level COVID-19
testing, hospitalization, and death data from March 7, 2020 through 2022. The Project began when two informal COVID-19 tracking
initiatives - Alexis Madrigal and Robinson Meyer's research for The Atlantic, and Jeff Hammerbacher's independent data collection
- combined their efforts; Erin Kissane joined soon after as co-founder. The Project grew to include hundreds of volunteers,
who contributed via data entry, data quality review, web and infrastructure development, community development, and science/government
communication. In addition, the Project employed up to 30 contractors to manage operations (divided into teams).
Due to the difficulty of automatically aggregating and maintaining data from dozens of health departments, the Project enlisted
volunteers to monitor, enter, and review COVID-19 tracking data. It also worked with government agencies to advocate for data
transparency and standardization. The Project also collected and maintained data regarding COVID-19's racial impact (in partnership
with Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research) and on long-term care centers. As a result of its focus on data quality
and transparency, the Project was one of the leading sources for COVID-19 data in the United States.
The COVID Tracking Project received administrative support from The Atlantic magazine, but was otherwise an independent organization.
The Project received funding through donations from foundations.
The final daily data publication was on March 7, 2021. The Project continued through the summer of 2021, during which time
it produced reports, updated existing data, and wound down the Project's activities.
Processing Information
Processed by Alexander Duryee and Kevin Miller in 2022-2023.
Scope and Contents
The COVID Tracking Project records consists of COVID-19 data products, data creation and quality records, organizational records,
correspondence, and code repositories.
The Project existed entirely online, with no physical headquarters, as reflected by the nature of the records. Files primarily
came from Google Drives created under the covidtracking.com account, which were used to create, manage, and share documents,
spreadsheets, presentations, and other files. Other sources of records included Github for code, Amazon S3 for screenshot
storage, Airtable for project management, and Front for correspondence.
The Teams series documents the activities of the Project's teams, which managed tasks such as data entry, data quality, data
and web infrastructure, and community development. As all of the Project's work was done by a team, these records represent
the organization's internal operations, and encompass the full breadth of its activities. When possible, team lead files are
present as Google Takeout exports, which include the lead's Google Drive and GMail records.
The Archive Files contains files selected by Project contractors and volunteers for preservation in the collection. This
series includes data spreadsheets, training materials, community records, data quality notes, and personnel records.
The Datasets represent the final published data products created by the Project. These were the Project's main output and
its primary function, with the Testing and Outcomes (TACO) dataset being the best known. Included are the final COVID Racial
Data Tracker (CRDT) and Long-Term Care (LTC) datasets, and annotations, which contain "per-state, per-metric structured notes
on state reporting practices".
Screenshots contain records of the data sources used by Project teams. The majority of items in this series are screenshots
of government websites; however, other data formats, such as Excel spreadsheets and PDFs are included. Each primary data product
had its own collection of screenshots; in addition, unpublished and secondary research, such as variants and vaccinations,
had their sources captured. The screenshots were designed to provide a record of provenance for the Project's data and a stable
backup for potentially unstable data.
The Slack series includes export of internally public discussions from covidtracking.slack.com, which was the Project's primary
hub for communication and internal activity. Access copies of discussions were generated by the archivists, which include
files and images associated with Slack messages.
Social Media contains records from the Project's Twitter and Instagram accounts (including Twitter Direct Messages), along
with newsletters emailed to a mailing list.
The Github Repositories series includes public code and data repositories published by the Project. Github was used to maintain
active code for the website, API, and other technical infrastructure for the Project; in addition, certain research data was
published on Github. One repository, issues, used Github's issues feature as a public forum to discuss errors, questions,
and features.
Arrangement
The collection has been subdivided into seven series: Teams, Archive Files, Datasets, Screenshots, Slack, Social Media, and
GitHub Repositories.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated to the UCSF Archives and Special Collections by
The Atlantic magazine in 2022.
Conditions Governing Access
The UCSF Archives and Special Collections policy places access restrictions on material with privacy issues for a specific
time period from the date of creation. Restrictions are noted at the series level. This collection will be reviewed for sensitive
content upon request. Contact the UCSF Archivist for information on access to restricted files.
Preferred Citation
The UCSF Archives and Special Collections policy places access restrictions on material with privacy issues for a specific
time period from the date of creation. Restrictions are noted at the series level. This collection will be reviewed for sensitive
content upon request. Contact the UCSF Archivist for information on access to restricted files.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of
the Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Accruals
No future additions are expected.
Existence and Location of Copies
Subjects and Indexing Terms
COVID-19 Testing
Public health
Data Science
Pandemics and COVID-19
Series I. Teams
Physical Description: 42.30 Gigabytes11,498 digital files
Biographical / Historical
The Project's responsibilities were divided across teams, which were staffed by volunteers and led by team leads. Each team
focused on one or two areas of the Project, such as data entry, website management, and outreach. Members were able to serve
on multiple teams at a time.
Scope and Contents
The team files consist of exports from the general Project Google Drive (organized by team), team lead Google account exports,
and material selected for preservation by Project members.
This series includes meeting minutes and recordings, training recordings, operational documents, data spreadsheets, publicaations,
and correspondence with the government and public. In addition, data products by the CRDT and LTC teams are included, along
with data entry sheets for CRDT and TACO. Many planning documents for projects such as the data API, database implementation,
the yearbook, and Year 2 (Y2) are held in this series. Of particular note are the oral histories, which were conducted by
the Community team during the end of the Project's main activities.
Research
Physical Description: 7.60 Megabytes3 digital files
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Available onsite.
Meetings
Physical Description: .21 Megabytes6 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Dataset spreadsheet
Physical Description: 1.25 Megabytes1 digital file
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Available onsite.
About Our Volunteers blog post
Physical Description: 3.12 Megabytes2 digital files
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Available onsite.
All-Hands Meetings
Physical Description: 7.27 Megabytes51 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
CTP Oral Histories
Physical Description: .51 Megabytes4 digital files
Separated Materials
Oral history working recordings were deaccessioned.
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Federal Data 101
Physical Description: 1.13 Gigabytes1 digital file
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Closed until 2102.
General
Physical Description: 1.48 Megabytes5 digital files
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Available onsite.
Help Desk
Physical Description: 256.89 Megabytes82 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Mailchimp Newsletters
Physical Description: 19.35 Megabytes119 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Media Briefings
Physical Description: 562.67 Megabytes1 digital file
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Closed until 2102.
Miscellaneous
Physical Description: .01 Megabytes2 digital files
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Available onsite.
Recruitment
Physical Description: 1.47 Megabytes4 digital files
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Available onsite.
Skillshares
Physical Description: 1.05 Gigabytes3 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Spindown
Physical Description: 242.56 Megabytes5 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
box 1
Swag and Merch
Physical Description: 52.34 Megabytes43 digital files
Physical Location: 14A C2
Scope and Contents
Includes one box of items purchased via the Project storefront.
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Volunteer Applications
Physical Description: 4.32 Megabytes6 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Volunteer info
Physical Description: .65 Megabytes8 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Yearbook
Physical Description: 43.98 Megabytes22 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Rebma Amber
2021 April 30
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Sonya Bahar
2021 March 22
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Available on Calisphere:
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Joseph Bensimon
2021 March 12
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Madhavi Bharadwaj
2021 February 26
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Hannah Birch
2021 February 18
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Kathleen Birch
2021 February 22
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Carol Brandmaier-Monahan
2021 March 17
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Meredith Broussard
2021 February 24
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Kim Bryant
2021 March 26
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Nicki Camberg
2021 January 28
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Jennifer Clyde
2021 March 12
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Emily P. Coles
2021 April 21
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Crazy Things About State Dashboards
2021 April 11
Scope and Contents
Group interview by Amanda French with Joseph Bensimon, Carol Brandmaier-Monahan, Jonathan Gilmour, Lauran Hazan, Olivier Lacan,
Betsy Ladyzhets, Brian Li, Michal Mart, Quang Nguyen, Kathy Paur, and Kara Schechtman.
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until July 2, 2023.
Artis Curiskis
2021 April 6
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Available on Calisphere:
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Elizabeth Eads
2021 February 17
Physical Description: 25.8 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Jennifer Firehammer
2021 March 14
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Available on Calisphere:
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Amanda French
2021 March 4
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Aviva Geiger Schwartz
2021 March 26
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Jonathan Gilmour
2021 February 26
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Rachel Glickhouse
2021 March 29
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Benjamin Goldberg
2021 March 19
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Alice Goldfarb
2021 March 27
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Jeff Hammerbacher
2021 March 17
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Available on Calisphere:
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Lauran Hazan
2021 April 2
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Available on Calisphere:
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Justin Hendrix
2020 December 4
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Leslie Heyison
2021 April 8
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Hannah Hoffman
2021 June 27
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Jacqueline Houtman
2021 April 2
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Glen Johnson
2021 April 26
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Pat Kelly
2021 March 11
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Deirdre Kennedy
2021 April 1
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Erin Kissane
2021 March 26
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Julia Kodysh
2021 March 19
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Olivier Lacan
2021 June 8
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Betsy Ladyzhets
2021 January 28
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Available on Calisphere:
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Jennifer Larsen
2021 May 8
Physical Description: 399.0 Megabytes10 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Júlia Ledur
2021 April 22
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Brian Li
2021 March 7
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Daniel Lin
2021 March 21
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Asia Lindsay
2021 March 19
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Zach Lipton
2021 March 16
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David Luo
2021 March 17
Physical Description: 22.6 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Alison Maddux
2021 May 17
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Alexis Madrigal
2021 March 30
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Jessica Malaty Rivera
2021 March 19
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Ethan Marcotte
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until July 2, 2023.
Michal Mart
2021 March 16
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Robinson Meyer
2021 March 26
Physical Description: 49.00 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Theo Michel
2021 April 5
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Kevin Miller
2021 March 23
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Charlotte Minsky
2021 March 14
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Quang Nguyen
2021 January 26
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Available on Calisphere:
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Kara Oehler
2021 May 20
Physical Description: 195.8 Megabytes5 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Judith P. Oppenheim
2021 February 10
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Available on Calisphere:
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Rick Palmer
2021 March 14
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Brandon Park
2021 March 17
Isha Pasumarthi
2021 June 1
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Available on Calisphere:
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Kathy Paur
2021 March 12
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Joanna Pearlstein
2021 March 14
Catherine Pollack
2021 March 1
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Prajakta Ranade
2021 March 22
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Harriet Rowan
2021 March 25
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Aarushi Sahejpal
2021 March 23
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Jason Santa Maria
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Kara Schechtman
2021 March 12
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Ryan Scholl
2021 March 14
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Lindsey Schultz
2021 March 22
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Andrew Schwartz
2021 March 5
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Brandon Shaw
2021 March 16
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Sara Simon
2021 March 24
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Kari Stark
2021 March 26
Physical Description: 34.3 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2028.
Allen Tan
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Stephen Thomas
2021 March 11
Physical Description: 1.00 Gigabytes19 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Kayleigh Van Poolen
2021 March 24
Neesha Wadhwa
2021 April 5
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Closed until July 2, 2023.
Peter Walker
2021 May 28
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Available on Calisphere:
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Laura S. Welch
2021 March 10
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Nadia Zonis
2021 March 12
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Available on Calisphere:
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All-hands Meetings
Physical Description: 7.63 Gigabytes190 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Mailchimp Export
Physical Description: 45.09 Megabytes656 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
CTP Archiving Project
Physical Description: 3.16 Megabytes15 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Yearbook
Physical Description: 771.13 Megabytes15 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
COVID Racial Data Tracker
Data entry spreadsheets
Physical Description: 31.99 Megabytes10 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Quality assurance plots
Physical Description: 85.93 Megabytes618 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
CDC comparison
Physical Description: 5.34 Megabytes126 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Historical data entry
Physical Description: 51.22 Megabytes42 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Metadata
Physical Description: .18 Megabytes2 digital files
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Available onsite.
Cases in the Indian health system
Physical Description: 1.34 Megabytes1 digital file
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Available onsite.
What is up with Massachusetts
Physical Description: 1.03 Megabytes1 digital file
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Data entry documentation
Physical Description: 7.21 Megabytes7 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Research spreadsheets
Physical Description: 1.35 Megabytes7 digital files
Data spreadsheets
Physical Description: 38.32 Megabytes12 digital files
Scope and Contents
Material was originally held by the accounts@covidtracking.com account.
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Archive
Physical Description: .98 Megabytes3 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
State Data Dictionaries
Physical Description: 8.05 Megabytes46 digital files
States Grades
Physical Description: .01 Megabytes1 digital file
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Training Videos
Physical Description: 5.82 Gigabytes69 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Unarranged files
Physical Description: 2.94 Megabytes3 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Testing and Outcomes spreadsheet
Physical Description: 1.66 Gigabytes646 digital files
Scope and Contents
Contains the full version history of the primary Testing and Outcomes data entry sheet ("Worksheet 2").
Daily Slack threads
Physical Description: 7.57 Megabytes7 digital files
Scope and Contents
AirTable database of Slack threads tagged and selected by the Data Entry team for further doucmentation.
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Data Entry Shifts Sign Up Sheet
Physical Description: .24 Megabytes1 digital file
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Pre-shift briefings
Physical Description: 4.35 Megabytes17 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Team meetings
Physical Description: .44 Megabytes4 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
2020-2021
Physical Description: 3.17 Megabytes7 digital files
Scope and Contents
Includes presentations, training materials, and holiday schedules.
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Team Drive
Physical Description: 35.1 Megabytes37 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
COVID-19 files provided by states
Physical Description: 5.43 Gigabytes5,469 digital files
States COVID-19 Time Series History
2021 June 1
Physical Description: 562.56 Megabytes52 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
TACO database
Physical Description: 95.39 Megabytes16 digital files
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Available onsite.
Avocado database
Physical Description: 499.19 Megabytes47 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Internal API database
Physical Description: 335.92 Megabytes7 digital files
2020-2021
Physical Description: 1.17 Megabytes12 digital files
Scope and Contents
Includes project proposals, plans, and postmortems.
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Editorial
Physical Description: 21.90 Megabytes27 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Internal Explainers
Physical Description: 0.03 Megabytes2 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Misc
Physical Description: 167.14 Megabytes123 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Outreach Drafts
Physical Description: .02 Megabytes2 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Presentations & Meetings
Physical Description: 1.06 Megabytes6 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Process Docs
Physical Description: 2.78 Megabytes7 digital files
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Available onsite.
Project Plans
Physical Description: .22 Megabytes4 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Scrap
Physical Description: .02 Megabytes3 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
Spreadsheets
Physical Description: 1.76 Megabytes3 digital files
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Available onsite.
Year 2
Physical Description: 1.59 Megabytes10 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Unarranged files
Physical Description: .38 Megabytes3 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Chart annotations
Physical Description: .28 Megabytes2 digital files
Testing & Outcomes Field Definitions
Physical Description: 2.10 Megabytes3 digital files
Test types reported by states
Physical Description: .09 Megabytes1 digital file
Florida and Alabama data definitions
Physical Description: 1.78 Megabytes5 digital files
Hospitalization definitions
Physical Description: .1 Megabytes2 digital files
The Annotations Bible
Physical Description: .01 Megabytes1 digital file
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
2020-2021
Physical Description: .03 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Meeting notes
Physical Description: .26 Megabytes3 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
State data sources
Physical Description: .16 Megabytes1 digital file
CDC comparison
Physical Description: 1.02 Gigabytes41 digital files
Washington tests
Physical Description: 37.75 Megabytes95 digital files
Data quality spreadsheets
Physical Description: 5.50 Megabytes6 digital files
Backfill meetings and research
Physical Description: .47 Megabytes5 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Backfill operations
Physical Description: 27.35 Megabytes56 digital files
Y2 data collection
Physical Description: .52 Megabytes2 digital files
2020-2021
Physical Description: 8.58 Megabytes8 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Data Visualization
Biographical / Historical
Team was initally called "Presentation"
Tableau charts
Physical Description: 4.59 Megabytes30 digital files
Team Drive
2020 March - May
Physical Description: 253.65 Megabytes60 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Data viz and reporting from external outlets
2020 March 6 - April 16
Physical Description: .04 Megabytes1 digital file
New volunteers orientation
2020 April 28
Physical Description: .87 Megabytes1 digital file
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
HHS Comparisons
Physical Description: 438.57 Megabytes1,195 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Annotations
Physical Description: .86 Megabytes9 digital files
2020-2021
Physical Description: 13.60 Megabytes5 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Organizational Leadership
Journalism award submissions
Physical Description: .54 Megabytes8 digital files
Whitepapers
Physical Description: 7.68 Megabytes4 digital files
Archiving Federal COVID-19 Websites, Documents, and Data
Physical Description: 5.12 Gigabytes728 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Planning documents closed until 2102.
Planning documents
Physical Description: .77 Megabytes6 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
State testing data release best practices
Physical Description: .35 Megabytes1 digital file
Television broadcast mentions
2020 August - October
Physical Description: 2.50 Megabytes1 digital file
Changes in state reporting
Physical Description: .01 Megabytes1 digital file
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Long-term care and testing data calls
2021 January - April
Physical Description: 319.86 Megabytes9 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
HHS testing data questions
Physical Description: 3.87 Megabytes28 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Correspondence with states
Physical Description: 24.18 Megabytes22 digital files
Scope and Contents
Records exported from an "Outreach" AirTable database.
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Correspondence with states
Physical Description: .91 Megabytes4 digital files
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Available onsite.
Outreach reporting
Physical Description: 1.41 Megabytes4 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
HHS testing sprint
Physical Description: 332.45 Megabytes132 digital files
Project management database
Physical Description: .30 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
General files
Physical Description: 1.75 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Available onsite.
Website Rework
Scope and Contents
Exported from the general Google Drive.
Allison PR
Physical Description: .89 Megabytes4 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Brand Book Style Guides
Physical Description: 0.01 Megabytes1 digital file
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Home Page Rework
Physical Description: 2.30 Megabytes4 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Meeting Agendas
Physical Description: .31 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Project Management
Physical Description: .59 Megabytes9 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
SEO
Physical Description: 4.58 Megabytes3 digital files
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Closed until 2102.
UX
Physical Description: 25.48 Megabytes1 digital file
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Closed until 2102.
Unarranged files
Physical Description: 218.78 Megabytes33 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Website traffic report
2021 June 1
Physical Description: 0.01 Megabytes1 digital file
Website analytics
Physical Description: 122.69 Megabytes4 digital files
Andrew Schwartz birthday website
Physical Description: 4.38 Megabytes202 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
2020-2021
Physical Description: .03 Megabytes2 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Series II. Archive files
Physical Description: 22.14 Gigabytes3,743 digital files
Biographical / Historical
Project members with @covidtracking.com accounts were primarily contractors, along with exceptionally active volunteers.
Scope and Contents
This series contains records created by Project members and selected for inclusion in the collection. The files include data
spreadsheets, training materials, community records, data quality notes, and personnel records.
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Rebma Amber
Physical Description: 149.00 Megabytes263 digital files
Hannah Birch
Physical Description: 2.62 Megabytes8 digital files
Elizabeth Eads
Physical Description: 2.13 Megabytes19 digital files
Amanda French
Physical Description: 2.16 Gigabytes589 digital files
Scope and Contents
Contains an export of Google Drive from the covidtracking.com Google Workspace.
In addition, the Drive contains records from Glen Johnson's Google Drive.
Separated Materials
Oral histories, training videos, and Front correspondence that were duplicative to the general files were deaccessioned.
Jordan Gasspoore
Physical Description: 2.02 Megabytes1 digital file
Jonathan Gilmour
Physical Description: 3.49 Megabytes66 digital files
Rebecca Glassman
Physical Description: 138.48 Megabytes95 digital files
Matt Hilliard
Physical Description: 7.79 Megabytes21 digital files
Deirdre Kennedy
Physical Description: 173.34 Megabytes11 digital files
Elliott Klug
Physical Description: .32 Megabytes1 digital file
Brian Li
Physical Description: 375.28 Megabytes25 digital files
Asia Lindsay
Physical Description: 1.33 Megabytes8 digital files
Zach Lipton
Physical Description: 253.32 Megabytes188 digital files
Scope and Contents
Also includes an export of the account's GMail from the covidtracking.com Google Workspace.
JD Maresco
Physical Description: 54.95 Megabytes37 digital files
Michal Mart
Physical Description: 231.69 Megabytes457 digital files
Scope and Contents
Contains an export of Google Drive and GMail from the covidtracking.com Google Workspace.
Ciara McCarthy
Physical Description: .74 Megabytes5 digital files
Theo Michel
Physical Description: 95.22 Megabytes96 digital files
Charlotte Minsky
Physical Description: 616.83 Megabytes983 digital files
Whet Moser
Physical Description: 29.18 Megabytes79 digital files
Quang P. Nguyen
Physical Description: 19.14 Megabytes38 digital files
Brandon Park
Physical Description: 13.62 Gigabytes387 digital files
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains an export of Google Drive and GMail from the covidtracking.com Google Workspace.
The Drive export includes records from Elliott Klug's Google Drive.
Catherine Pollack
Physical Description: 288.70 Megabytes5 digital files
Ryan Scholl
Physical Description: 10.65 Megabytes40 digital files
Andrew Schwartz
Physical Description: 79.44 Megabytes19 digital files
Cameron Stanford
Physical Description: .71 Megabytes2 digital files
Ruirui Sun
Physical Description: 52.23 Megabytes153 digital files
Neesha Wadhwa
Physical Description: 434.25 Megabytes12 digital files
Peter Walker
Physical Description: 1.21 Gigabytes134 digital files
Nadia Zonis
Physical Description: 2.13 Gigabytes1 digital file
Series III. Datasets
Physical Description: 126.10 Megabytes25 digital files
Scope and Contents
The datasets series represents the Project's primary product of COVID-19 epidemiological data. Each item in this series was
published and regularly updated on covidtracking.com; these records represent the final version of the datasets on 2021 March
7.
Daily United States COVID-19 Testing and Outcomes Data By State
2020 March 7 - 2021 March 7
Physical Description: 2.69 Megabytes5 digital files
Existence and Location of Copies
Available via Dryad: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9kd51c5hk
Weekly United States COVID-19 Racial Data By State
2020 April 12 - 2021 March 7
Physical Description: .79 Megabytes4 digital files
Existence and Location of Copies
Available via Dryad: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.7272/Q6TT4P68
Weekly United States COVID-19 Long-term Care Data By State
2020 May 28 - 2021 March 4
Physical Description: 120.80 Megabytes6 digital files
Existence and Location of Copies
Available via Dryad: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.7272/Q62F7KPT
Annotations on COVID-19 state data definitions
Physical Description: .76 Megabytes7 digital files
Existence and Location of Copies
Available in Dryad: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.7272/Q6JD4V1G
Daily United States COVID-19 data for select cities and counties
2020 May 29 - October 21
Physical Description: .97 Megabytes3 digital files
Existence and Location of Copies
Available via Dryad: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.7272/Q69Z934Z
Series IV. Screenshots
Physical Description: 236.61 Gigabytes328,243 digital files
Scope and Contents
Screenshots represent the data sources used by the teams to track COVID-19 testing, hospitalizations, deaths, and eventually
variants and vaccines. The bulk of the sources are screenshots of state and federal government Web sites, but may also be
tabular data or static documents. Records were captured via both automated and manual processes.
Conditions Governing Access
This series is unrestricted.
Testing and outcomes
Physical Description: 187.8 Gigabytes259,432 digital files
COVID-19 Racial Data Tracker
Physical Description: 17.30 Gigabytes33,896 digital files
Long-term care
Physical Description: 23.1 Gigabytes20,088 digital files
Indian Health Services
2020 November 20 - 2021 June 2
Physical Description: 157.80 Megabytes185 digital files
CDC Data Tracker
2020 May 11 - October 18
Physical Description: 252.30 Megabytes630 digital files
State variants
2021 March - September
Physical Description: 2.2 Gigabytes3,960 digital files
Vaccines
Physical Description: 5.80 Gigabytes9,798 digital files
Screenshot sources
Physical Description: 1.92 Megabytes254 digital files
Series V. Slack
Physical Description: 38.13 Gigabytes162,267 digital files
Biographical / Historical
The Project's Slack instance (covidtracking.slack.com) was its primary hub of operational and community activity. Members
could post text messages, images, and files to channels; in addition, they could add custom emoji to add and react to messages.
Scope and Contents
This series contains an export of public channels, user lists, messages, emoji, and files taken from the Project's Slack instance.
The raw exports (as JSON) from Slack are included; in addition, messages, images, and emoji were combined into PDFs for archival
access during processing.
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Public Slack channels
Physical Description: 38.05 Gigabytes159,901 digital files
Scope and Contents
Includes JSON exports of public channels, files uploaded to Slack, and PDFs for archival access.
Conditions Governing Access
Closed until 2102.
Emoji
Physical Description: 69.97 Megabytes2,366 digital files
Scope and Contents
Includes custom emoji exported from Slack and the Emoji March Madness bracket.
Series VI. Social media
Physical Description: 2.59 Gigabytes11,119 digital files
Scope and Contents
This series includes Project posts on Instagram (@covidtrackingproject), Twitter (@COVID19Tracking), and emailed newsletters.
Private correspondence with @COVID19Tracking is also part of this series.
Twitter
Physical Description: 2.52 Gigabytes10,719 digital files
Scope and Contents
Includes public tweets and likes of @COVID19Tracking, and private messages to and from the account.
Conditions Governing Access
Private messages to and from the @COVID19Tracking account are closed until 2102.
Instagram
Physical Description: 62.18 Megabytes358 digital files
Email newsletters
Physical Description: 11.69 Megabytes42 digital files
Series VII. GitHub repositories
Physical Description: 73.87 Gigabytes123,400 digital files
Scope and Contents
This series contains open-source code and data repositories created by the Project, which were hosted on GitHub under the
COVID19Tracking organization. Repositories were used to maintain Project websites, APIs for public and internal use, automated
data proceses, data archives, and documentation. While many repositories represent products used over the course of the Project's
operations, others were single-purpose, experimental, or superseded by later projects. Of note is the issues repository, which
was used as a general forum for questions, bug reports, and suggestions to the Project and its products.
Included in each item are repository files, git history files, GitHub issues, and pull requests as they appeared in March
2023. Issues and pull requests were captured separately and are included in an ISSUES directory in each item, along with a
browsable interface developed for this collection.
Separated Materials
A partial backup repository of screenshots (screenshot-archive) was removed from the collection.
analysis
Physical Description: 6.78 Megabytes65 digital files
api-compare
Physical Description: 0.08 Megabytes40 digital files
apichanges
Physical Description: 0.05 Megabytes34 digital files
Scope and Contents
Contents published on apichanges.covidtracking.com
associated-data
Physical Description: 6.08 Megabytes65 digital files
cdc-comparison
Physical Description: 7.45 Megabytes108 digital files
code-of-conduct
Physical Description: 0.09 Megabytes36 digital files
contentful-image-upload
Physical Description: 0.38 Megabytes71 digital files
covid-api-specs
Physical Description: .26 Megabytes37 digital files
covid-data-archive
Physical Description: 134.72 Megabytes475 digital files
covid-data-pipeline
Physical Description: 2.04 Megabytes91 digital files
covid-public-api
Physical Description: 11.06 Gigabytes106,822 digital files
covid-public-api-build
Physical Description: 4.26 Megabytes242 digital files
covid-public-api-build-v2
Physical Description: 0.3 Megabytes58 digital files
covid-publishing-api
Physical Description: 6.61 Megabytes334 digital files
covid-tracking
Physical Description: 2.10 Megabytes151 digital files
covid-tracking-api
Physical Description: 1.62 Megabytes108 digital files
covid-tracking-dash
Physical Description: 1.75 Megabytes47 digital files
covid-tracking-data
Physical Description: 57.29 Gigabytes5,906 digital files
covid19-datafetcher
Physical Description: 4.54 Megabytes160 digital files
Florida-Causes-of-Death
Physical Description: 47.57 Megabytes425 digital files
issues
Physical Description: 396.50 Megabytes3,122 digital files
long-term-care-data
Physical Description: 396.86 Megabytes84 digital files
ltc-data-processing
Physical Description: 2.16 Megabytes135 digital files
ltc-geocoding
Physical Description: 25.41 Megabytes53 digital files
New-Jersey-Causes-of-Death
Physical Description: 3.37 Megabytes49 digital files
Ohio-Causes-of-Death
Physical Description: 6.80 Megabytes84 digital files
quality-control
Physical Description: 13.95 Megabytes85 digital files
screenshots
Physical Description: 3.22 Megabytes436 digital files
urlwatch
Physical Description: 1.06 Megabytes76 digital files
urlwatch-proxies
Physical Description: 0.16 Megabytes53 digital files
website
Physical Description: 435.72 Megabytes3,637 digital files
website-data
Physical Description: 3.14 Gigabytes77 digital files
website-docs
Physical Description: 209.48 Megabytes60 digital files
website-internal
Physical Description: 2.43 Megabytes121 digital files
website-screenshots
Physical Description: 653.91 Megabytes53 digital files
