Covid-Tracker

This is an interactive website that tracks, models and predicts COVID-19 Cases.
The website http://mycoviddashboard.pythonanywhere.com/ is updated daily.
We are using the John Hopkins DataSet that can be found at: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

Requirements

Pyhton 3.7 or above

Installation of the packages

It is highly recommended that you create a virtual environment dedicated to this project.

  1. cd into the project directory
  2. Run the command python -m venv dashboard_venv to create the virtual environment
  3. Activate this virtual environment using one of the following commands
  4. Run pip install -U pip to upgrade pip to the latest version
  5. Run pip install wheel to install the wheel package, which helps install the other packages
  6. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all the necessary packages into this environment

Launching the dashboard

  1. cd into the project directory
  2. run python update.py
  3. run python dashboard.py

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Input the address http://127.0.0.1:8050/, you should be able to see the dashboard.
If error messages occur, try refreshing the page.

Quick Overview of the Website

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GitHub

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