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Data4Good: Find an At-Home COVID-19 Test Kit Near You
Overview of My Submission
We built a web application using the Shiny framework from the R programming language to help users locate & report at-home COVID-19 test kits. You can check out the web app live in action here for the State of Connecticut!
This app works very similar to the Waze app, in that the data that populates the app is entirely user-driven. Through the UI, users have the ability to add a new record to the back-end MongoDB Atlas database (i.e., where/when they saw COVID-19 at-home test kits in stock), and remove a record (where/when they saw COVID-19 at-home test kits out of stock).
The purpose of this project spawned from seeing so many disjointed Facebook forum questions/answers about where people could find at-home COVID-19 antigen test kits. There was no single place to centralize this information -- so we set out to build just that!
Furthermore, we wanted to open-source this effort, so that anyone can reproduce this app to serve their own town/state/region/country/etc.
Submission Category:
Choose Your Own Adventure
Link to Code
ketchbrookanalytics / covid_test_spotter
Shiny web application for locating and reporting inventory of COVID-19 at-home test kits
CT COVID-19 At-Home Test Spotter
The goal of the CT COVID-19 At-Home Test Spotter app is to allowusers to locate and report the availability of at-home COVID testingkits at retail locations in their state.
It works very similar to the Waze app, in thatthe reports data is entirely user-driven.
The app opens to the Home page, which displays the most recentlyreported test kits available in retail locations:
When the user clicks either the green or red buttons at the top ofthe page, they are taken to a form prompting them to submit informationabout when and where they saw test kits in or out of stock:
Installation
Clone this repository to your local machine
Open the covid_test_spotter.Rproj filefrom the directory on your local machine where you cloned thisrepository. This should install the {renv} package if you do notalready have it installed, but
Additional Resources / Info
As stated in our overview, you can check out the web app live in action here, tailored for the State of Connecticut.
This projects utilizes a really neat combination of R, Shiny, Google Maps & Places APIs, and MongoDB Atlas to provide a seamless user experience that serves as a benefit to the public. See for yourself in the screenshot below:
We have already gotten amazingly positive feedback about how this app helped people in our local community find an at-home COVID-19 test kit that they had been desperately searching for. We sincerely hope that the project only continues to grow -- and winning the MongoDB + DEV Atlas Hackathon would be a tremendous help to ensure that it does.
Original Link: https://dev.to/mike_ketchbrook/data4good-find-an-at-home-covid-19-test-kit-near-you-3b78
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