Feel-Track

Inspiration

Summer vacations are just around the corner, and the hottest thing to do is travel. Ever since the advent of the coronavirus, however, the prevalence of safety from infectious diseases is at its highest. While travel borders have opened up and vaccines have arrived, our fear of infectious diseases (beyond just the coronavirus) will not depart easily. Our team aims to give a user-friendly one-stop-shop for people to see the rates of illnesses in different areas so that they can make conscious, and hopefully safe, choices on where to travel.

What it does

Feel-Track shows two types of interactive maps. The first is the most recent rate of infectious outbreaks through an interactive choropleth map. The second is another interactive map showing how other users are feeling wherever they are, and the potential illness they may have. The users’ data is collected through a survey of symptoms, which our AI model can use to identify as potential illnesses. Users can gain points by completing these surveys, which can be used to redeem NFTs; these NFTs come from data companies who will buy our data.

How we built it

Our team chose to use Framer and Typdream to design our summer-themed frontend to maximize frontend efficiency. We parsed data from the cdc website and showed it in an interactive map using Folium/Leaflet. We used for Our backend was deployed with Heroku.

Challenges we ran into

One of the challenges was the building of the choropleth. The data provided by the CDC were not all consistent so it required some manual work to gather the data we wanted to collect. Some of the website building tool did not provide html export so it was hard to connect with the backend

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are especially proud of our web app’s design. It was our team’s first time using Framer and Typdream, and we are proud to creating a program that looks good with these tools.

What we learned

We learned about current outbreaks by reading documentations at CDC websites. Also we learned about how to build website using Framer and Typdream and discovered ways to build map using Folium/Leaflet.

What's next for Feel-Track

There is currently only CDC data for some illnesses and states in the United States, for simplicity. However, in practical usage, the data should be expanded to as many illnesses as possible. Also, the map can be expanded for global usage, so that international travelers can use the app.

Built With

• flask
• foliu
• framer
• heroku
• html5
• kaggle
• machine-learning
• python
• typdream