Since the coronavirus outbreak, an excessive amount of unfiltered, scattered and even fake information is being constantly brought to people’s attention on the internet. This created a general need for reliable information, which is currently scattered over several different websites and databases. This is why we developed the Coronga platform: for users to merge, relate and interact with reliable information more intuitively.
What made us choose this challenge was precisely the difficulties we find while searching for reliable and integrated information at times like these. This kind of information is often hard to access, read and interpret, especially when considering the non-scientific community. And that is what we aimed for while executing the project: to fill the informational gaps amidst the pandemic, in a clear and interactive way, so it can be comprehensible and intuitive to all.
In order to develop the prototype, we made use of several tools made available to us for the competition. Firstly, we created our website, https://coronga.co, by securing the domain and statically hosting it with https://porkbun.com. Thanks to its friendly interface, setting up the website was not a problem. Secondly, we used the Phantom theme available at https://html5up.net/phantom as a template to build our system. By using CSS, HTML and JavaScript, we adapted the template to fit our needs. Thirdly, we found an open source JavaScript library (https://www.chartjs.org) to help us display datasets in our website in the shape of dynamic charts and graphs. Using reliable data sources (https://data.nasa.gov/browse?q=brazil&sortBy=relevance, https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html, https://www.noaa.gov/, and https://www.worldpop.org/) we collect datasets, and from them we extracted meaningful data using Python. This data was then displayed meaningful data and displayed them neatly in the website. Ideally, these datasets would be accessed in real time, and as they are updated, so would our website. Due to time constraints and the scope of this challenge, such accomplishment was not possible. Lastly, we made use of designing tools such as Adobe Photoshop and AutoCAD to create logos and design features contained in the website.
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- Phantom;
-CSS, HTML and JavaScript;
-Open source JavaScript library;
-https://data.nasa.gov/browse?q=brazil&sortBy=relevance;
-https://www.worldpop.org/;
-Python;
-Adobe Photoshop;
-AutoCAD.