Politics, Data, and Covid-19

COVID-19 & Mask-Wearing Willingness

Research Motivation

• Highly politicized nature of the pandemic 

• Examine the relationship between politics and mask favorability

• Implications for states handling future diseases/pandemics

Introducing The Dataset

Data Description

• Sourced from the New York Times (https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/tree/master/mask-use)

• Survey Question: “How often do you wear a mask in public when you expect to be within six feet of another person”

• Observations represent individual counties 

• Columns represent frequency of each response

Inference/Modeling/Analysis

\[ holistic\ score = 0.4861795 + 0.1827743 \times binary\ state \]

Inference/Modeling/Analysis

Conclusion