COVIDMINDER

Revealing regional disparities in outcomes, determinants, and mediations of the COVID-19 pandemic

COVIDMINDER reveals the regional disparities in outcomes, determinants, and mediations of the COVID-19 pandemic. Outcomes are the direct effects of COVID-19. Social and Economic Determinants are pre-existing risk factors that impact COVID-19 outcomes. Mediations are resources and programs used to combat the pandemic.

• Home repository: https://github.com/TheRensselaerIDEA/COVIDMINDER
• For those new to github: https://education.github.com/git-cheat-sheet-education.pdf (github cheatsheet)

Usage

Production Deployment (deployed 10 Apr 2020; updated daily)

• http://covidminder.idea.rpi.edu (info and resources link)
• https://inciteprojects.idea.rpi.edu/apps/covidminder/ (link app)

Local Installation

To deploy locally:

• Clone the github repository
• In R:
  • setwd() to the COVIDMINDER directory
  • source("data_downloaders/source_downloaders.R")
• Run app.R in RStudio (ie in the source code pane, simply select "Run App" on the top right corner)

Data Sources: Updated daily! (See also data subdirectories)

JHU CSSE
COVID Tracking Project
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Kaiser Family Foundation
CDC
County Health Rankings
heath.data.ny.gov

Project structure

• app.R: The main application file which includes the Shiny application code for both UI and server.
• README.md: The file includes the documentation for this project.
• /modules: The application is divided into several modules based on their functions which are all located inside this directory.
• /data: This directory includes all the data files used in the project, including both json as well as CSV files.
• /LDI: This directory includes all the LDI related Rmd and HTML files.
• /www: Files associated esp. with HTML stylin'
• /data_downloaders: Scripts for manually pulling data from various sources