ICE Detention COVID-19 Maps

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Animated visualizations of COVID-19 infections in ICE detention over time.

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May 23, 2021

COVID-19 Cases in ICE Detention Over Time

The following maps and graph are generated with data scraped from the ICE Guidance on COVID-19 website. The scraped data are maintained in a GitHub repository. COVID-19 data reported by ICE are linked with geocoded facility locations. COVID-19 data are assembled in “long” format, plotted with ggplot (Wickham et al. 2024), and animated with the gganimate (Pedersen and Robinson 2024) library.

Cumulative COVID-19 Map

A map of cumulative COVID-19 cases by ICE detention facility over time.

Cumulative COVID-19 Line Plot

Total Detained and Active Cases Line Plot Over Time

The following is a pair of line plots showing detained population and active COVID-19 cases in custody over time. Comparing the plots one can see that between July and January 2020 as the detained population decreased the number of active COVID-19 cases in custody declined. Likewise, one can see that in late March 2021 as the total detained population began to rise the number of active COVID-19 cases in custody also rose and that by April 2021 both the detained population and active COVID-19 cases in ICE detention are rising rapidly.

Active COVID-19 Map

A map of active COVID-19 cases by ICE detention facility over time.

References

Pedersen, Thomas Lin, and David Robinson. 2024. Gganimate: A Grammar of Animated Graphics. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gganimate.
Wickham, Hadley, Winston Chang, Lionel Henry, Thomas Lin Pedersen, Kohske Takahashi, Claus Wilke, Kara Woo, Hiroaki Yutani, Dewey Dunnington, and Teun van den Brand. 2024. Ggplot2: Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggplot2.

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{craig2021,
  author = {Craig, Nathan},
  title = {ICE {Detention} {COVID-19} {Maps}},
  date = {2021-05-23},
  url = {https://nmc.quarto.pub/nmc/posts/2021-05-23-ice-detention-covid-19-maps},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Craig, Nathan. 2021. “ICE Detention COVID-19 Maps.” May 23, 2021. https://nmc.quarto.pub/nmc/posts/2021-05-23-ice-detention-covid-19-maps.