Interactive COVID-19 tracker

This is an interactive interface for the New York Times COVID-19 data, which is available here.

VIEW HERE

Install

Clone the project with its dependency:

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:jtebert/covid-interactive.git

Within the cloned directory, set up the Python environment:

python3 -m venv venv  # Create a virtual environment for the dependencies
source venv/bin/activate  # Activate the virtual environment
pip install -r requirements.txt  # Install the dependencies for the project

To update the data from the submodule, run:

git submodule update --remote

Run

python app.py

Open the interactive graph in the browser, probably at localhost:8050

I used these instructions to deploy to Heroku.

License

This project is available under the MIT license.

COVID-19 data is from The New York Times, based on reports from state and local health agencies.

County population data is from the Department of Agriculture (2018) and state population data is from the US Census (2019).

Graph Options

This is an explanation of the options for displaying data in the map and time series graph.

Date: The date for which data is displayed in the map and alerts but does not affect the time series graph.

Data Scaling: Map colors and time series graph can be scaled linearly or logarithmically (base 10). This changes the map color scale and time series y-axis.

Show number of... Show graphs based on either the number of confirmed cases or confirmed deaths.

Show... Choose how to process and display the death/case data.

• Total Count: Show the raw count of confirmed cases/deaths.
• Count per 100,000 People: Show the number of cases/deaths per 100,000 in each county or state. (See above for population data sources.)
• Daily Change (count): Show the change in number of cases/deaths from the preceding day.
• Doubling rate (days): Show how many days it currently takes for the number of cases/deaths to double. This is computed as:

Average data over days: This generates a moving average of the data over the current and preceding days. By default, it is set to 1 day, which means that there is no averaging.

Display Options:

• Use fixed color scale: Uses a colorscale for the map based on the maximum value on the most recent day. This allows you to compare maps across days on the same scale. If unchecked, the colors are scaled based on the data for the current day
• Show background map: Turn on/off a detailed map underneath the county data
• More coming soon