My State and COVID

Overview

There is a large amount of data concerning the COVID-19 Pandemic, from death rates, to infection, to ICU admissions, and recoveries. Up-to-date data presented in number form can be difficult to process for the human brain. My State and COVID aims to create a visualization of this data that easy to parse, separated by state.

Link to live site

Functionality & MVP

My State and COVID users will be able to:

• Choose a state from the United States.
• See a visualization of the number of tests, infections, hospitalizations, and deaths for that state.
• Hover over the visualization to see raw numbers.
• A link to the COVID Tracking Project with a short blurb on the work they do.

Wireframes

Architecture and Technology

• JavaScript as the base language.
• d3.js for visualizing data.
• Webpack for bundling files together.

Implementation Timeline

Day 1 Setup for project, including node installation

Day 2 Integration of D3 library and API calls.

Day 3 Creation of visualization and frontend features.

Bonus Features

• State to state comparison of data
• Comparison of previous days to present day as an option.