Your assignment this week is to write a detailed proposal for your final project. In proposing your final, try to address each of the following areas. Please produce at least a paragraph which addresses the topics below
Applications are ultimately just tools. What problem or question does your application attempt to resolve or grapple with? How does your application speak to this problem/question?
The objective of my project is to create an interactive web to present the distribution of coronavirus and public sentiment about the epidemic. Generally, there are many digital application for coronavirus query, but there is less concern about the public sentiment. This application can monitor the public words on Twitter to listen to what people really say about the coronavirus. Also, the application can help people find the best route to hospital or testing station, in case they have any mental or physical need.
Geospatial applications are all about working with data. What datasets would you plan/like to use? If the data you'll be working with isn't already stored in a way that you can use, how will you be storing your data?
The coronavirus data is from CDC. The hospital data is from opendata. The Twitter data is sampling scraped online.
Which technologies covered in class (or discovered on your own!) do you plan to use? How do you anticipate using each of these technologies?
Review the APIs/online examples of leaflet, turf, jQuery, underscore (or any library not explicitly covered in class) for functions/uses which you'd like to explore. Briefly describe how you might use them.
The library such as leaflet, turf, jQuery as well as Mapbox API will be covered in this project.
At a high level, how do you expect people to use your application?
- Who are the users? The people who is concern about the coronavirus epidemic or need to find a route to hospital. The government department which need to learn the public sentiment and prevent the outbreak of group panic.
- What do they gain from your application' use? They can visually understand the US epidemic situation and get access to hospital.
- Are there any website/application examples in the wild to which you can compare your final? CDC has provided the map of coronavirus. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html\ But there is no similar application about public sentiment.
So far, we've built all our applications with a side bar for representing non-map content and navigation. This is not the only successful design. Extra content could be displayed in a top bar, through modals, through side bars on both sides, and any combination of these as well as a number not mentioned. Try to describe your application's visual layout. Conceptually (no need for extensive CSS here), what will this design require?
The extra chart is a good way to show the situation of the area that the user is concerned about. Linked icons should be the key to good design
Thinking about weaknesses can be useful. What do you anticipate being most difficult about this project? How will you attempt to cope with these difficulties? For example, asynchronous behavior (ajax, events) are hard to use and think about. Global variables are a strategy for coping with that difficulty by breaking data out of the asynchronous context.
We've only managed to scratch the surface of the available technologies by which you could construct an application. What use-cases haven't we covered that you think would be useful? What technologies not covered seem exciting to you (you don't necessarily have to fully understand what they're for, this is a chance for you to get help interpreting a technology's purpose/usage).