CampVirus - Space Apps Challenge

CampVirus| Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

DataCuriosity

Summary

DataCuriosity is a platform that helps the user to obtain legible and real-time information about the true situation of the planet in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, through curve graphs and statistics of each country with contaminated, recovered, deaths and isolation for X days. In addition, a platform provides curiosities that happens during this period, and a entertainment session that contains films, series, games, music, books and e-books. All based on a questionnaire to identify tastes and genres. The site will also have coupons available for purchases with DC partners such as Netflix and Saraiva.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project will help people to get information about what is happening in the world and the consequences to our enviroment, how our actions affects the world. We will also help people to take care of themselves with some fun games, apps and curiosities

How We Developed This Project

What most impacted the CampVirus team was the lack of real information and updated in real time the situation on the planet, we want everyone to have easy and simple access to the statistics of each region. In addition, the great need to keep people at home entertained was another factor that led us to think about the solutions present in the project. Faced with this challenge, we have set as our main objective to reveal graphics of the disease and consequences regarding social isolation from the environment during the pandemic. Therefore, we decided to define tools to contribute to the mental health of those who are in social isolation, providing an area for entertainment that is easily accessible to everyone. For this, we thought about using ReactJS on the front end, because its learning curve is relatively smaller than other JavaScript frameworks. In addition, we can reuse our code with React Native, which allows us to develop native applications for Android and IOS. For the Back-end, we think of Node.JS with Express and SOCKET.IO, to develop a scalable API with support for WebSockets, information in real time. Finally, we would use MongoDB to store large volumes of data, as it is non-relational and performative. So learning new technologies and implementing everything we thought would be impossible, we ended up focusing on further developing our ideas in theory and sketching the project and in these two days of development, we looked for some data provided by NASA, we ended up using as a reference, a Tableau chart showing how countries in the world are behaving in a pandemic and methods to slow the spread of COVID-19.