CoronaGlobe

3D heatmap of the COVID-19 coronavirus

Deployed at https://blog.lazd.net/coronaglobe/

Running the project

Development

Before following these instructions, install yarn.

1. Clone and init submodules

git clone --recursive git@github.com:yourfork/coronaglobe.git

If you've already cloned without --recrusive, run:

git submodule init
git submodule update

2. Install dependencies

yarn install

3. Start developing

open http://localhost:1234
yarn dev

Production

To create a production build in dist/:

yarn build

Updating

To fetch, load, and commit and push new data, run:

yarn fetch
yarn load
yarn push

Deployment

To fetch, load, and commit new data, build, and deploy, run:

yarn update

To deploy code changes only, run:

yarn deploy

Technology

This project is built with simple, old-school web technology, but the magic comes from the following projects:

• three.js: 3D library
• webgl-heatmap: Heatmap drawn with WebGL shaders
• Turf.js: Advanced geospatial anaylsis
• Parcel: Web application bundler

Acknowledgements

This project wouldn't be possible without John Hopkins University's reseach and coronavirus data. Their freely available CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 is the source of data for this project.

This project uses data from the Natural Earth dataset, processed with mapshaper.

Huge thanks to James Hastings-Trew's Planetary Pixel Emporium for his amazing 4K Earth textures.

Thanks to @yonet for TweetMigration, which was used as the basis for this project.

License

This project is licensed under the permissive BSD 2-clause license.