hagoodwi92 / covid-19-capstone

A Covid-19 Tracker built with Ruby and Sinatra.

README

Project's Purpose or Goal: Provide users with daily COVID outbreak reports. Stretch goals include displaying an outbreak map, as well as including other criteria to avoid states.

• MVP
  Receive daily COVID cases by state from an outside source

Compare states total COVID cases per day to determine hotspots(criteria TBD)

For example, the criteria could be a threshold of daily cases determines a hotspot. TBD

• User Stories:

A user should be able to visit the homepage and see a list of states to avoid based on daily COVID case levels

• Tools used:

Attempted to implement this in React. Repo here: https://github.com/hagoodwi92/covid-19-tracker-react.

Instead, I will implement this in Ruby/Rails as originally planned, and if I have time I will add rails-react for advanced styling.

Ruby/Rails, Javascript. I believe I need more flexibility implementing this project, so I am going back to a programming language I am more comfortable with. I will be scraping daily COVID data from other sources(potentially an API if one exists). Lots of room for additional features with this project.

Research:

https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails

https://react-bootstrap.github.io/

https://www.highcharts.com/docs/maps/map-collection

https://www.highcharts.com/demo/maps/color-axis

-https://www.highcharts.com/blog/posts/frameworks/ruby-on-rails/

https://www.highcharts.com/docs/maps/getting-started

https://www.highcharts.com/docs/getting-started/your-first-chart

https://www.highcharts.com/docs/maps/map-collection

• Stretch

all 50 states in the bar graph, daily new deaths - done

search funtion to find a state, with state map even! - fri

A chart with data - done

A map of the U.S. that shows outbreak rates by color - stuck

multiple states: avoid a state when it meets 3 criteria: bad covid rates, violence, bad weather, etc. avoid this state if meets criteria- not doing

make account, add your states to track. daily email- probably not

home page with cdc mask guidelines, video from fauci etc- yes

A state map of Oregon showing daily outbreak rates by county- stretch

• Additional Tools

This project will require accurate daily COVID cases from an online source, such as the CDC or other reputable source. My additional goal of including a map will require additional tools if I have time to attempt this feature.

• Misc

This app is named States to Avoid. If I have additional time, I may include other reasons to avoid states, such as violence, crime, or other criteria. Thanks!