Opioid Tracker Dashboard

Inspiration

We were inspired by to create this dashboard to inform Americans about the opioid crisis and give them alternatives and resources.

What it does

This dashboard visually displays opioid prescription, overdose (fatal and non-fatal) by state and county via user dropdown selection and gives them alternatives (pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic) along with national resources to consult.

How we built it

We built it via Python with a Flask framework using Dash and Pandas libraries along with API requests to various USA government public APIs.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges connecting the frontend of our code to the backend framework. This resulted in the application being unfinished, we would have liked to link local resources in the user's area also, but ran out of time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the fact that we managed to get a working dashboard displaying graphical data.

What we learned

We learned that perhaps we should've collaborated on getting the frontend to mix with the backend earlier, so we would not run out of time to get the application done.