Professor of Computer Science at Old Dominion University
Using the SODA API to access data from the Virginia Open Data Portal
function buildURI (dataset, limit=1000, other_params="") {
if (limit === 1000) {
// to call this with default limit and additional params, use undefined as 2nd argument:
// buildURI("dataset", undefined, "params")
var uri = "https://data.virginia.gov/resource/" + dataset + other_params;
} else {
var uri = "https://data.virginia.gov/resource/" + dataset + ".json?$limit=" + limit + other_params;
}
return uri;
}
uri = buildURI("bre9-aqqr", 100000) // since there were 89.9k on Jan 22, 2022, request more than that
data = (await fetch(uri)).json()
printTable(data.slice(0,5))
data.forEach(d => {
d.report_date = new Date(d.report_date),
d.total_cases = +d.total_cases,
d.hospitalizations = +d.hospitalizations,
d.deaths = +d.deaths
});
printTable(data.slice(0,5))
import {printTable} from "@uwdata/data-utilities"
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