Coronavirus Movement Mapper

Movement data in Boston.
Movement data in Amherst area.
Movement traffic (people,phones, etc) in Amherst and Boston.
Markers indicating Universities with high cases.
Markers displaying heatmaps.
Markers display information when clicked.

What it does

We want to help people that needs to get out of the house predict their traffic. And nowadays, traffic means people. We want to make sure that people can know the food traffic of their location, so they are aware of what they are getting into when going outside. Kinda like google maps, but to asses your risk of catching coronavirus.

How I built it

We built it by forking a whole lot of data (70 GB worth!) from a company called Mapbox, that tracks people's phone activity and sorts areas by their activity index. We created the app using React and preprocessed the data using Python and the pandas library.

Inspiration

We were inspired by Snapchat's Snapmap features and how it features 'high activity areas on the map.

Challenges I ran into

The main part that we ran into was importing the data, and in the end we coudn't get the statewide data of Massachusetts like we planned to, because it was simply too much data. We also had problems implementing the map components at first, but we got through that pretty quickly.