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.

COVID19 Insights

Summary

Our project consists of an user-friendly platform which is compatible with everyone’s intellect and whatever devices they are using to access data. A diverse impact has fallen to our everyday lifestyle and many changes have taken place in this COVID-19 pandemic. With the economy plummeting in a dangerous manner where we might head towards a recession, it is our small gesture and an effort to provide insights on what is happening around the world. In this people can have the right knowledge and prepare for what is coming up next. We want them to see what we see, via the right visualisation.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We believe:

  • People have the right to the right information.
  • People deserve to get the chance to prepare themselves.

This is where we come in. We present data in such a manner that even a non technical person can understand what is happening. This understanding will impact largely as now the population can take necessary measures to fight COVID19. We have considered multi-temporal features from statistics and presented them in simple graphs and charts. Though this, the people of a particular region can understand the spread of the disease and how the economy is being impacted. This will lead them to self awareness.


How We Developed This Project

As a citizen of a third world country, most of the time we don't get the right data or resources to understand our situations and make a safe prediction. To provide general people with understandable insights and to give them the opportunity to take necessary measures was the reason to choose this challenge.

We tried to make a simple well-defined user-friendly online platform which was accessible to everyone with an internet connection regardless of what device they use. Thus providing them with the opportunity to make the best out of it. For that,  we incorporated socio-economic data, performed some data analysis and them visualised from the most unadorned user's perspective. 

The website we made was just a protoype and we plan to upgrade and add more data and visualisation to it.

 Finding the right data, formatting it  and then cleaning the data were some of the problems that we faced. Collaborating online was another issues while working in this  project.

We used simple html and css to code the prototype of the website. For data analysis and visualisation we used python libraries such as numpy, pandas, matplotlib etc. Github and Kaggle was used to host the codes. The Discord workspace was pretty useful for team collaboration and organisation.

Project Demo

Presentation Slides:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YqM32oVlVV0x_f33iSq9TNLCEkB2W_4y4N-399s88uk/edit?usp=sharing

The Platform: https://insightcovid19.co

Data & Resources

U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS: https://www.bls.gov

WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard: https://covid19.who.int


Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Report: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/


Tags
#COVID19_impacts #economic_impact #social_impact #understand #simplifyCOVID19 #isights
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.