CS 331E Project Phase 3

http://www.covidtracker.me/

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1. COVID-19 Tracker Project http://www.covidtracker.me/ Aali Sahay, Peter Driscoll, Fernando Martinez Mojica, Dung Le, Arnab Zubair, David Alvarez
2. Team Members Aali Sahay Arnab Zubair Peter Driscoll Pearl Le David Alvarez Fernando Martinez- Mojica More details on our team including issue tracker and unit test stats can be found at http://www.covidtracker.me/about
3. Problem How to present accurate and up-to-date information about COVID-19 and the actions being taken to address it in an easily digestible manner.
4. Goals of the project ▪ Showcase data and visualizations regarding the coronavirus outbreak for people in an easily accessible manner ▪ Provide a template for displaying information about other policy issues
5. Problems faced during the project ▪ Finding a reliable source of data that is updated daily on the numbers related to COVID19 ▪ Making the data as user-friendly and digestible as possible
6. Tools Used ▪ Flask ▪ COVID Tracking Project’s Data API, NYT COVID-19 Github, Kaiser Foundation Data ▪ HTML, CSS, Bootstrap ▪ PostgreSQL ▪ Google Cloud Platform ▪ Google Graph API ▪ Jinja2 ▪ SQLAlchemy ▪ Python3
7. DEMONSTRATION http://www.covidtracker.me/
8. Self-Critique Group 3
9. What did we do well? ▪ We managed to create the presents the information from our database in user-friendly way – A user can access information sorted by categories such as states and counties ▪ We managed to create the presents the information from our database in user-friendly way
10. What did we learn? ▪ The seriousness of the crisis with having to deal with the daily updated number we got to see the rapidly growing number ▪ With the numbers changing daily, we had to judge data sources for our project with more scrutiny as we had to make sure that the source would update daily and were as accurate as possible
11. What can we do better? ▪ Include information about different countries ▪ Create more interactive maps ▪ Develop a system where you could pull up a relevant map when searching state and county information
12. What puzzles us? ▪ We were not sure how to figure out how to make our visualizations more granular, such as having a county-by-county map inside of our existing state-by-state map
13. Group 4 Critique http://soccerdb.me/
14. What did they do well? ▪
15. What did we learn from their website? ▪
16. What can they do better? ▪
17. What puzzles us about their website? ▪
18. Q&A http://www.covidtracker.me/