kcirerick commented 3 years ago

Using national COVID data, we can display a heatmap on the central page so that, when users search for a location they can see if that location is in a more dangerous area than another they may be considering. We can probably toggle this feature on/off so the user can see a cleaner map if desired.

ccjeane commented 3 years ago

This would be a cool use of heat map data, and I like the idea of toggling it.

kcirerick commented 3 years ago

IMPLEMENTATION OUTLINE:

https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/covid19-in-usa?select=us_counties_covid19_daily.csv I believe we can parse this dataset. Algorithmically, here's how I think we can approach this in pseudo-pseudo-code:

for each line in the dataset:

  locate the county this case occurred;

  query places for this county to obtain a coordinate object (i.e. {lat: , lng:});

  if this pair is already in our map:
    map[coordinate] += 1
  else: 
     map.put(coordinate, 1)

Once we count how many cases occurred at each location, we can use the following to easily turn this into a heatmap: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/heatmaplayer

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(Stretch) Use COVID data to display heat map #30

IMPLEMENTATION OUTLINE: