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.
cd
into the project directory- Run the command
python -m venv dashboard_venv
to create the virtual environment - Activate this virtual environment using one of the following commands
- Run
pip install -U pip
to upgrade pip to the latest version - Run
pip install wheel
to install the wheel package, which helps install the other packages - Run
pip install -r requirements.txt
to install all the necessary packages into this environment
Launching the dashboard
cd
into the project directory- run
python update.py
- run
python dashboard.py
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.