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.

Covid Data Checker

Summary

The project has the challenge of verifying the veracity of news that circulates in the internet analyzing the texts contained on the website and comparing it with a database of the World Health Organization and NASA in real time in an attempt to deny and circumvent the negligence or panic of the population, giving opportunity for people to know a little more about the virus.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The challenge chosen by the team was to analyze information, in real time, about the general factors that affect the spread of the coronavirus. We propose an extension for the Google Chrome browser, which analyzes the text of the current tab to verify the veracity of the data and information on that website and, thus, keep the reader informed if this information is true or even if the website on which the person is reading information is reliable. Presenting coronavirus data in a new way.

How We Developed This Project

For abstraction of project ideas we used the Figma website, allowing the team to edit and create images, shapes and texts to help with abstraction. We seek to understand what could have a positive long-term impact on containing the virus, so based on awareness, a large number of people around the world appear to be indifferent or panic at the news read about the coronavirus, helping to increase the number of infected, often for not believing or for sensationalism in the information read. To get around this,  we had the idea of a project to confirm that data is correct and that site has a good reputation in relation to the nature of the information. With the idea decided, we started to code the prototype using Visual Studio Code for programming, the HTML hypertext markup language and the JavaScript programming language with RegEx (for string identification). The icons used and the editing of the images for the Slide and project were created and edited all again using the Figma platform, as the voice channel we use the Discord platform.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/Q0IpJwlNT48

Data & Resources

It uses NASA and World Health Organization sets for data validation, WorldPop Api Basics and api.covid19api.com for in real time numerical comparison.

Tags
#noFakeNews #realInformation #informationImpact #news #extension #chromeextension
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.