An Integrated Assessment

Your challenge is to integrate various Earth Observation-derived features with available socio-economic data in order to discover or enhance our understanding of COVID-19 impacts.

FATE: COVID-19 Socioeconomic Insights

Summary

FATE seeks to understand the multilayered factors around the obvious socioeconomic impacts and divides caused by COVID-19. Through looking at data related to temperature, % of risk jobs and foreign travel by State, we provide insights into factors related to the seemingly "biased" spread of the disease and fatalities.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Through analysis of COVID deaths by state, and foreign travel, we a linear relationship, with outliers that provided insights about temperature. These temperature insights can be furthered to understand other socioeconomic data as it relates to deaths in areas with high temperature variance. 


Through analysis of risk jobs and population density, we were able to eliminate the % of COVID-19 risk job employment and amplify the impact of population density on number cases and deaths. With further analysis on a demographic level as it relates to race and age, this could be a potential explanation to the disparities. 

How We Developed This Project

With interest in understanding the reasons behind the drastic disparities and division that COVID-19 was causing amongst different socioeconomic classes, we attempted to look at the count of COVID-19 deaths in relation to other factors such as population density, travel frequency, employment and unemployment, land surface temperature, comorbidity and others. 


Leveraging excel and pandas dataframes  to build master data sheets from NASA, CDC, USA Facts, NYTimes, and many other sources, we then examined and visualized the data creating various dashboards in Tableau.The project was then developed using Figma wireframes as a design base for HTML/CSS generated by Webflow integrated with a Django Python application. 

Project Demo

Download the files in the GitHub repository below: 


http://localhost:8000/py2tableau/

Data & Resources
  • NASA MODIS Monthly LST dataset 
  • CDC COVID Deaths/Cases by Day 
  • US Dept. of Transportation Data Foreign Travel Aviation Data 
  • BLS Data on Percent Risk Jobs
Tags
#foreign travel #populationdensity #COVIDriskjobs #temperature
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.