This Interactive Qualifying Project explored the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of interactive cartography with a focus on making complex phylogenetic data more accessible. A flexible graph database was used to collect and analyze various forms of epidemiological data including phylogenetic data from Nextstrain. This data was primarily visualized through a custom web-based interactive mapping application that lets users explore an inferred transmission map of COVID-19 across the United States. The project aims to demonstrate how digital visualization techniques can be leveraged to make complex phylogenetic data approachable and useful to a broad audience.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• McCann, Emmett A.

Subject

• Health
• Learning
• Computing
• Project-Based Learning
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 5361
• E-project-012221-174038

Keyword

• COVID-19
• Pandemic
• Epidemiology
• Visualization
• Mapping
• Phylogenetics

Advisor

• Cocola, Jim

Year

• 2021

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Date created

• 2021-01-22

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-05-03