HTML scraping from CDC public data tables to obtain opioid prescription rates data for past few years 2006-2017 at county and/or state level. Original source for all prescribing data: IQVIA Xponent 2006โ2017. More info on data source here: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/maps/rxrate-maps.html
- Pulls publicly available CDC opioid Rx rates data (link above)
- Allows users to specify what year and county or state they want data for
- Stores data in the specified directory as an excel file
- Plots opioid Rx rates across years based on specified filters
Generated plots, filtered data, and full data stored in repo.