covid-19-data VS Klayers

The NY-Times github repository says that the data will no longer be updated after March 24, 2023. (https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data)

I am trying to do practice problems about 7 day averages according New York Times repository

NYTimes Covid Data

Find blog articles and tutorials. Find sample datasets, like COVID data from NYT or order data from Instacart

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Covid-19 wasn’t 1% mortality at the start of the pandemic, it was much higher, and today’s daily remains at a .85% mortality rate for today’s US cases only [1] [2]. As for your comparison, it remains today 9 times deadlier than the flu.

New York Times repository updated daily

All data comes from the NYTimes COVID-19 github.

I am looking at state level data in the USA and my dependent variable is a running COVID case tally at the state level (you can find it here: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/us-states.csv).

Use public layers maintained by others. For example Klayers which are produced with CI in GitHub Actions. This way you don't have any layers lying around in your Lambda UI. You can point to new layer versions whenever you wish. You can interact with the layer data via an API : https://github.com/keithrozario/Klayers/#api

If I want to do something more data heavy or complex, I'll sometimes instead go for Python. Having a mixture of languages is one of the big advantages of micro services. Packaging dependencies is a bit tricker for Python, for simple packages I'll usually include in my build script something to copy the relevant directories from my venv's site-packages. However one neat alternative is to use a publicly available precompiled lambda layer from Klayers. These slot neatly in one line of code into my terraform config and enable me to use popular Python packages like numpy and pandas without troubling myself about C extensions, build environment or having to mess with Amazon Linux.

Before anything, Huge shoutout to Keith Rozario for providing us with this awesome Repo. where he defined layers for lambda functions to add libraries that doesn't exist by default in the lambda runtime without you having to create them yourself. I used his repo to add the requests, pandas and psycopg2 libraries to the project.

I like to use this guy’s layers as an arn: https://github.com/keithrozario/Klayers