Open Health Charges

These United States of America

Inspiration

I'm American and my friends make fun of me for it all the time :(. Here's another one of their indictments of the situation at home. Roger and Marcus wanted to work with Leap so we let them, and you can now move the map with leap!

What it does

OHC shows you where it's most expensive to be sick in America.

How we built it

We used leaflet.js and a package for it called leaflet-heat to draw the map and then draw a heatmap. It gets data from a python web server hosted on AWS which parses a massive 35 megabyte CSV from the US government's open data source, data.gov. You can control this map with leap, using a different repo

Challenges we ran into

Getting leap to work was quite the challenge. Most of us were essentially new to Javascript, not to mention the Javascript API for the leap! Setting the max bounds and max zoom for the map was quite difficult as well.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're really happy that we got everything in the scope of our project working! Getting the leap to work in-browser was very impressive as well, we think!