High-Level Project Summary
We developed an application capable of helping people to integrate back into society safely and responsibly. The "CovidMapp" application is capable of providing safe information to the user about the risks and conditions of going outside, preventing possible risks of contagion and informing about the best health measures to take. People will have the opportunity to verify the risks of going outside and thus take certain measures to safeguard their health.
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Detailed Project Description
This application shows to the user some conditions about COVID-19 of a destination, the application takes the information of a place and process whether is safe or not to go out so the user can make a decision about the data represented. This PWA (Progressive Web Application) gives information about places, also information about some variables, such as the population and the weather. Also it includes links to keep information available about COVID topics.
We hope these application be able to bring to the user a feeling of safeness to be well documented, and a simple but powerful interface.
These application, divided in two, one is the backend, uses Python with some libraries (such as Pandas, Sklearn, Flask) where it was included a machine learning model to predict and advice about COVID-19 risks. The frontend part was developed in JavaScript with the React Js library, also we included an API Map resource to deploy locations marks, then we collected and displayed data in a PWA to deploy in all devices. Therefore, the Python app works as an API that uses open datasets and process to return more information of a petition.
Space Agency Data
We used mostly the open source dataset from the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Universitym. Doing preproccesing of the datasets from days ago to get answer about the new cases, deaths and recovered. But also take information from the NASA-SEDAC (Socioeconomic data and applications center).
Hackathon Journey
It was an extremely enriching experience that allowed us to develop skills and competencies such as analytical thinking, teamwork, problem solving and creativity; likewise, it was a challenge that had a positive impact on our academic and professional growth.
We learned to recognize areas of opportunity in a multidisciplinary environment, implement information technologies incorporating epidemiological, social and static data capable of applying them efficiently in an application that seeks to innovate in the health sector in order to benefit society in the short term and long term.
Our inspiration lies in the current situation and the panorama that revealed a situation as shocking as the pandemic. We are convinced that we need adequate tools for information management, this will allow to control its spread and create social awareness in order to prevent and save as many people as possible.
We focussed on giving the user a feeling of safeness through giving updated data based on his/her location. Whereas we developed this project we spotted an opportunity field by making a PWA so that the information could be available for everyone using a mobile device or a PC. By doing this, we can reach a large amount of people.
One of the main challenges we faced was the time factor and communication, when doing it remotely the organization was somewhat difficult, however and thanks to the contribution of all the members we managed to manage the activities in such a way that everyone contributed from their area of expertise the creation and implementation of our Covidmapp application.
Firstly, to NASA for creating safe spaces where through challenges and resources of great interest we can create solutions together, likewise, to Virtual Innovation with Hackademy Culiacán who first-hand made this possible, from encouraging us to participate to an accompaniment and support from which we are extremely grateful.
References
https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.0.x/
https://reactjs.org/
https://pandas.pydata.org/
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.svm.SVC.html
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/blob/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_daily_reports/09-30-2021.csv
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/sets/browse
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/places-higher-risk-for-covid-19
https://www.redaccionmedica.com/secciones/sanidad-hoy/coronavirus-calor-mayo-estacionalidad-covid-19-3098
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/weather-doesnt-matter-covid-19-can-spread-in-warm-or-cold-temperatures
https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-recommendations-for-international-traffic-in-relation-to-covid-19-outbreak
https://www.vaccines.gov/
https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-states-during-covid/86567
Tags
#harwared #covid #Health #app
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