Covid Commitment
Project: Covid Commitment
https://covidcommitment.org/
A simple tool to show COVID19 prevalence in counties within driving range, and to encourage safe behavior with a simple shareable checklist.
Publications
- Local, Interactive, and Actionable: A Pandemic Behavioral Nudge | VACLab
- The Today Show: Safely expanding your quarantine bubble
Metadata
- Started: March 2020
- Built with Alex Rich (Private)
Technical Details
- Geopandas/Shapely/Pandas based data pipeline generating county level summary statistics
- Interactive LeaflefJS Map generated by Folium, displaying County Case Counts and Isochrone (Travel distance) data
- NextJS/React frontend built with components from Semantic-UI
- Backend is a hybrid of Darklang and Python lambda functions managed by the Serverless framework
- Caching via AWS Cloudfront + API Gateway
- Analytics with Datadog RUM + Google Analytics + Serverless Dashboard
- Geo-lookups powered by Algolia's Place search
- Isochrones data provided by Mapbox + Openrouteservice
Outline to fill out:
- Design process
- LoveTexans.org - see our Project Writeup + video
- LoveCaregivers.org when going national / international
- Gave a mini-presentation to Exaptive's Covid Cognitive City
- Adding the behavioral commitment device
- Feedback
- Media reception
- Sharing groups
- How it was built
- Jupyter prototype
- Powerpoint mockups
- Frontend in Next.js / React
- Data pipeline
- Serverless functions
- Instrumentation
- Adding daily trends data
- Challenges
- From state to national to international
- Data quality format / schema changes
- Visual design iterations
- Screenshots / Video
- WIP
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