The research covers the design of a heat map to track the spread of Covid-19 in the United States. The website developed shows a heat map of Covid-19 cases and deaths for each state partitioned by county. The data was obtained from a GitHub repository that is updated daily. The data is cleaned and then processed using the R programming language to create a heat map for each state and its counties for a particular date. All of these pictures make up the timeline of the Covid-19 progression through the United States between a start date and an end date. The pictures were imported into the site and used to create a stop motion animation with each picture representing one day in the given timeline. The website user can choose what state they want to view and whether to view positive case data or death data. The animation allows the user to visualize the spread of Covid-19 throughout a state within the given timeframe.
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