Inspiration
Covid-19 undoubtedly the biggest event in the past year and even so right now. A lot of things have changed due to it and I feel there is a lot on uncertainty regarding the magnitude of it's spread. I develop this as a resource to individuals to get a better understanding of the transmission and widespread of the virus. It provides the user with a probability calculated by a binomial probability algorithm that reflects the chances of having been exposed to a Covid-19 positive individual. It takes GUI input on the county, state and # of interactions and provides the chances of exposure accordingly. It has county cases and county population database to provide updated case data. I essentially followed a very basic gui model because this is my first hackathon. I planned out the project and noted by software requirements. I then looked for databases that I would need and how to manage them accordingly. Following that I designed the flow that my project would follow and basically engineered the program onwards.The most difficult part was to finding accurate and dependable covid-19 case data. Case reporting has been poor across the US and I saw that while finding a database to use during this. Most databases were state level cases and cumulative since the start of the pandemic. Furthermore, county level reporting was disorganized which certainly reduced the accuracy of my program. Having developed it all within 36 hours considering I am fairly new to the idea of Hackathons is certainly a good feeling. I was unsure regarding my time management and my skills but I feel that made me work faster and learn more aspects of the product as a whole.
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