GitHub repository: willchernoff/oneweirdtrick
Created: 2016-03-18T18:07:49Z
Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiological Research (WONDER) data retrieval system provides access to many types of public health information. Mortality and fertility counts for multiple years across standard geographical subdivisions broken down by race, gender, 5-year age groups, etc. are just some of the data available through this system. Though a vast array of data are available through WONDER, counts that fall between 0 and 9 are replaced with the word “Suppressed,” generating missing values, and hindering research agendas. This post describes a new method to recover some of these suppressed counts.