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Show HN: Interactive timeline of Covid-19 outbreak in WA

5 pointsby jake-lowabout 5 years ago

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jake-lowabout 5 years ago
Hi HN. I built this over the weekend to visualize the spread of COVID-19 infections in my home state of Washington.<p>I was frustrated that the DOH data and SeattleTimes maps only showed the current point in time, which made it difficult to answer the question &quot;is social distancing working?&quot;. So I scraped previous days&#x27; published tables from the Internet Archive, set up a script to scrape new data from the DOH website as soon as it&#x27;s published, and built a visualization that lets you scrub back and forth along the timeline to see the extent of the outbreak.<p>Code is available in the page (it&#x27;s an Observable notebook) and data is available on GitHub [0]. Let me know if you&#x27;re interested in using the data and I&#x27;ll be happy to help you get started; there are other data tables in the archived HTML pages that I haven&#x27;t scraped and converted to CSV yet, but in theory they too could be extracted and visualized.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jake-low&#x2F;covid-19-wa-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jake-low&#x2F;covid-19-wa-data</a>