Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

Awesome Lists | Featured Topics | Projects

https://github.com/mbauman/covidcountydash.jl


https://github.com/mbauman/covidcountydash.jl

covid-19 dash dashboard julia

Last synced: 3 months ago
JSON representation

Awesome Lists containing this project

README 

        
# CovidCountyDash



Visualization of [data] from [The New York Times], based on reports from state and local

health agencies; inspired by [John Burn-Murdoch]'s [FT analyses] of national-level data.



This has become significantly more complicated with successive iterations; see an earlier

version in the history (like [2633d5b]) for a simpler example.



## Data



As of March 24, 2023, the NYT has [unfortunately stopped](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/us/covid-data-cdc.html) updating this dataset.



Note the geographical [caveats in the NYT dataset]; the most annoying of which are the fact

that the 5 NYC boroughs are all lumped together and Joplin and Kansas City, MO report thier numbers

separately of counties they span.  Further, note that US territories and the District

of Columbia are listed as "states."



This dataset is joined with the [2020 US Census numbers] as mucch as possible to facilitate

rates per population, but special care is needed for some caveats. In particular, the city

of KCMO is split between portions of 4 different counties (Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte)

and does not wholly encompass any one of them. Since KCMO is reported separately, we pull

its population estimate from [its metro region association's estimates](https://web.archive.org/web/20211229011722/https://www.marc.org/Data-Economy/Metrodataline/Population/Current-Population-Data), and then remove population as appropriate from each of those four counties.



Some states report cases from "Unknown" counties (with 0 population).



## Deployment



This was setup to be hosted on free-tier Heroku dyno. In the free tier, the app gets killed

after 30 minutes of inactivity and we're given terribly anemic access to the CPU. To reduce

startup costs, a special [heroku buildpack] that uses [PackageCompiler.jl] is under development.



[![Deploy](https://www.herokucdn.com/deploy/button.svg)](https://heroku.com/deploy)



[data]: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data

[The New York Times]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

[John Burn-Murdoch]: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch

[FT analyses]: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

[2633d5b]: https://github.com/mbauman/CovidCountyDash.jl/blob/2633d5b665b3e053b8a01411b6adb270ef2fe60f/dashboard.jl

[caveats in the NYT dataset]: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data#geographic-exceptions

[2020 US Census numbers]: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/2020/2020-census-main.html

[heroku buildpack]: https://github.com/mbauman/heroku-buildpack-julia

[PackageCompiler.jl]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl