README.md

COVIDMINDER

Revealing regional disparities in outcomes, determinants, and mediations of the COVID-19 pandemic

COVIDMINDER reveals the regional disparities in outcomes, determinants, and mediations of the COVID-19 pandemic. Outcomes are the direct effects of COVID-19. Social and Economic Determinants are pre-existing risk factors that impact COVID-19 outcomes. Mediations are resources and programs used to combat the pandemic.

• Home repository: https://github.com/TheRensselaerIDEA/COVIDMINDER
• For those new to github: https://education.github.com/git-cheat-sheet-education.pdf (github cheatsheet)

Usage

Production Deployment (10 Apr 2020; updated daily)

• http://covidminder.idea.rpi.edu

Shinyapps.io Deployment (Created 30 Mar 2020; updated frequently!)

• http://bit.ly/COVIDMinder
• https://olyerickson.shinyapps.io/covid-di-prototype/

Local Installation

To deploy locally, clone the repository and run app.R on RStudio. On the source code pane, simply select Run App on the top right corner.

Screen Shot (26 May 2020)

Data Sources: Updated daily! (See also data subdirectories)

JHU CSSE
COVID Tracking Project
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Kaiser Family Foundation
CDC
County Health Rankings
heath.data.ny.gov

Project structure

• app.R: The main application file which includes the Shiny application code for both UI and server.
• README.md: The file includes the documentation for this project.
• /modules: The application is divided into several modules based on their functions which are all located inside this directory.
• /data: This directory includes all the data files used in the project, including both json as well as CSV files.
• /LDI: This directory includes all the LDI related Rmd and HTML files.
• /www: Files associated esp. with HTML stylin'
• /data_downloaders: Scripts for manually pulling data from various sources