Inspiration
It comes at no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic is pressuring disadvantaged communities and their local health infrastructure the hardest. Ironically, the most at-risk populations are the least equipped to handle serious disease outbreak. The original inspiration for the idea originated from exploring data and finding out how a Brazilian dataset was assisting analysis of 3D printed respirator parts for hospitals in Italy. We recognize the altruism of the international community and wanted to design a product that encourages that generosity.
What it does
Users are able to interactively visualize which counties in the state of California are experiencing Covid-19 the hardest. By keeping track of changes in metrics such as hospital capacity over the past few months, we can begin to understand which counties will need the most support in the days to come (Currently, Los Angeles county has both high level of total cases and new cases with a limited hospital capacity relative to their total population). Users who have the means to donate ventilators to hospitals would be directed to resources that take them there.
How we built it
Our attitude through hacking was to hold our strong opinions loosely. When something wasn't working as intended, we were quick to introduce alternatives that seemed more promising. It's important to understand what tools are appropriate at what time.
Challenges we ran into
Besides keeping up in constant communication when the team was physically separated, one of the biggest challenges we faced was finding high-quality data that fit our needs. While there was lots of data regarding corona, there was no neatly formatted endpoint for data we were looking for. This required us to improvise a lot in this process, eventually leading us down the path of creating our own endpoint that we can ping.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Have a working cool deliverable with a front end and back end component completed (we did a thing)
- Tried exercises from the Design Sprint to involve nondesigners in the design process
- Learned technologies that no one on the team was familiar with
- Build awareness for societal topics bigger than ourselves
- Had a blast
What we learned
- Application of techniques to facilitate discussion when the team is drawings blanks
- Done is better than perfect
- Simple Data Analysis workflow and how getting access to good data is everything
What's next for Cowovid-19
- How might we make cowowvid more mobile-friendly?
- How might we incorporate more complex yet summarized metrics to this project(improve data-collection/analysis)
- What are ways that we can tighten some of the interactions/visual design?
- What are ways to go about testing this project on real users?
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