Dr. Caitlin Rivers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health created a Python wrapper to access Project Tycho datasets and made the code availalbe on Github.
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Abstract
Python wrapper for Project Tycho Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System database. The core function returns all data matching specific parameters. Required parameters are the api key, loc_type (values are city or state), event (values are deaths or cases), and either a disease or a location (either city parameter or state parameter). Optional arguments are state and end years. The function returns a pandas dataframe of the results.
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