COVID-19 Statbot

Conflict Plan

• @here in Slack channel
• Everyone stops and regroups
• Differing opinions about how to proceed
  • Majority rules
  • If strong feelings, outside opinion (TA, Ryan)

Communication Plan

• Morning standup
  • 10 minute check-in
  • Project progress
  • Each individual's comfort level and engagement
• Afternoon check-in as needed
• End of day discussion and merge
• Encourage taking breaks
• After hours communication is fine but not required
• If working after hours, must communicate with whole group about what working on; cannot merge
• Communication about which files people are working in to avoid merge conflicts
  • Jira for tracking tickets
  • Card numbers for branch names
• Github
  • Two people review PR
    • Slack status?
  • Maker of PR must be the one to merge

MVP

Get data

• Daily number of cases
  • National
  • State
• Daily number of deaths
  • National
  • State
• Number of tests run
  • National
  • State

Transform data

• Normalize
• Turn total number into daily numbers
• Compare cases/deaths to tests

Share data

• Either Twitter or Slack
• Tweet daily digest of national numbers
• Tweet three states w most new cases today
• Tweet three states w fewest new cases today
• User can request data by state

Stretch

• Political leanings compared to death rates
• Political leanings compared to federal supplies granted
• Transmission rates
• When shelter in place was implemented for each state/how long they've been under shelter in place
• Graphing/charting results
• Simple front end