Tools
Tools help us simplify the data analysis pipeline by prepackaging many of the most commonly needed tasks to help resolve issues, and thus derive new insights.
The id_lookup function helps precisely determine the location codes within the epi and genomic datasets. Locations in many countries at times share their names with other places or sometimes within the same place. Take New York city, and New York state as an example. They are commonly associated to be the same, but they are different and New York city actually lies within the state of New York, but is not the entire state.
- Required argument: locations (A string or list of location names)
- Optional argument: max_results (Int, of how many results to return)
- Optional argument: table (If True, returns all results as pandas DataFrame)
Returns: location_id string/s within a list, or as a table
