COVID-19 MTL

A simple dashboard to display up-to-date epidemiological data on COVID-19 in Montreal.

View the application at covid19mtl.ca

I'd be happy to help if you'd like to make a version of this for your own city. You can find my contact info here: jeremymoreau.com

Running Locally

Here are the steps to follow if you want to run COVID-19 MTL locally for testing or development purposes:

1. Clone this repository then navigate to the checkout
2. Create a virtual environment: python3.8 -m venv .venv
3. Activate the environment: . .venv/bin/activate (the command is ., meaning source or include)
4. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-dev.txt
5. Run the app! python -m app
6. Optional: Run the data refresh script to download new data python refreshdata.py

Managing dependencies

We use pip-tools to make it easy to add or change dependencies. Direct dependencies of the app are added to requirements.in, with version specifiers that allow bugfix updates. The command pip-compile requirements.in writes the full list of all needed packages, with pinned versions, to the requirements.txt file, which is used for deployment.

To add a dependency or change the version of an existing one, edit requirements.in and run pip-compile, adapt the code of the app if that's needed, then commit all changes.

License

The COVID-19 MTL project is available under the MIT License. The hosted version at https://covid19mtl.ca is CC BY 4.0, but you are not required to apply this license to forks of this code (though it is encouraged as a CC license will make it clear that anyone is free to copy the plots/images and post them elsewhere).

Contributors

• Fixing all the things: Matthias Schoettle
• Chinese translation: Shangge Jiang
• Spanish translation: Zaida Escila Martínez Moreno
• Montreal Python 76 Hackathon:
  • Yannick Gingras (web scraper)
  • Éric Araujo (refactoring and optimisations)
  • Yen Kha (new figure: Deaths by place of residence QC)

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