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edschweppeToday, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ... completely changed the way their Daily Dashboard works - again. Now, instead of providing a downloadable PDF file with the day's information, they've published what purports to be an interactive dashboard "powered" by Tableau. I put "powered" in quotation marks because this dashboard has been remarkably slow to load (when it loads at all), with a bunch of broken image links and repeated popups stating "An unexpected error occurred. If you continue to receive this error please contact your Tableau Server Administrator."
That being said, the state claims to still be providing the underlying data - only now, instead of a ZIP archive containing various independent files, they're now providing a single spreadsheet with multiple tabs? (Oh, and the URL for today's spreadsheet? Still has last year: https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-raw-data-january-4-2020/download) Anyway, that change rather comprehensively breaks the code I'd been using to generate my own daily reports. I'll try and get something out later tonight, but I first have to figure out where the hell they hid the data this time....
That being said, the state claims to still be providing the underlying data - only now, instead of a ZIP archive containing various independent files, they're now providing a single spreadsheet with multiple tabs? (Oh, and the URL for today's spreadsheet? Still has last year: https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-raw-data-january-4-2020/download) Anyway, that change rather comprehensively breaks the code I'd been using to generate my own daily reports. I'll try and get something out later tonight, but I first have to figure out where the hell they hid the data this time....
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Date: 2021-01-05 03:15 am (UTC)