COVID-19 Tracker

Inspiration

The inspiration for this project came from the current pandemic that the world is in right now, and as a pre-health student, one of the project ideas that came to mind was a COVID-tracker using data that we currently have. I am not a CS or engineering major by any means, but the R Shiny pipeline was very beginner friendly and taught me how to launch a functioning app really easily!

What it does

The app allows the user to pick a specific date that there is available COVID data for and the user can click on statistics such as the number of total cases, the incidence rate, and the case-fatality ratio. The website also allows users to pick states that they are intersted in, and US cases as well as global cases stratified in similar data points of interest.

How I built it

I used the R shiny platform and its reactive features to build this simple interactive website, and uses the R language. I utilized other libraries such as dplyr which is a data wrangling library and leaflet, which is a mapping library used for visualizing maps.

Challenges I ran into

Learning the R language was a steep learning curve as with any language since it is hard to get producible results within the first implementation

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm proud that I was able to produce this project within 2 weeks and get it functioning without any previous programming experience!

What I learned

I learned that I am the most motivated when I work on projects that I am personally interested in and passionate about, and making a COVID tracker motivated me to want to finish the project as I cared about it.

What's next for COVID-19 Tracker

Currently the project is on standstill as I am shifting focuses more towards biomedical research, but I will revisit the project in the future when I can implement a pipeline with the shiny app!

Built With

• r
• shiny