Inspiration
It has already been one and a half years since the world faced the uncontrolled wrath of the COVID19 Pandemic. The Pandemic brought us to nearly think deeply on world diplomacy and combat together not as a nation but also as earthlings. If it were not for vaccines, all our joint resolutions would still seem helpless against COVID19. Accordingly, vaccination has now become the utmost priority of every country. But, the track and easiness of vaccination campaigns still seem problematic in most under-developed and developing countries like ours. If we see our country's progress, it has already been 155 days since the vaccination campaign started. Still, only 2.5% of the total population is fully vaccinated, and if the drive runs at this pace, it will take 12 years to vaccinate the whole population of our country fully. At this speed, none of the country at level best of ours could ever be able to avoid the future covid wave threats, so; this was the very dawn of idea behind the automated web tool, KHOP, that keeps track of all vaccination-related data and helps in effective dispatching of vaccines classifying according to its emergency need.
Approaches
Firstly, we commenced fetching the Earth Observing dashboard .csv file data to inspect the country-wise vaccination progress. As a specimen for our web app prototype, we only used the data of Nepal. Next, we fetched the provincial COVID case and vaccination data from MoHP (Ministry of Health and population) to organize further the data in our web application for easy public access.
Acknowledging the slack and severity of vaccine supply state, we mounted the system to order the need of vaccines by preferential order visualizing the variation/change in COVID cases, Mobility rate, and lockdown strictness factors. In addition, we further devised an algorithm where the public can find if the vaccines are in stock in their proximal locations and book their slot for vaccination via the web registration form for hassle-free and safe conductance of vaccination campaigns.
Tools used
The language used: JavaScript, Python
Library used: React, Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Plotly, Scikit Learn
Additional: Jupyter Notebook, VScode
Problems:
To get a hold of the regional vaccination data of our government, we had to go through a hectic, long, and uncertain process. We drafted a proposal and cover letter to present to the ministry, but they clearly refused to help with the data before the Hackathon submission deadline. And While processing a large data set, the developer's device crashed, which was our project's main issue.
Furthermore, the topic itself derived a unique way to demonstrate the vaccination system; that’s why we faced some unusual data visualization bugs finding the proper data-set we needed from the Earth Observing Dashboard.
Achievements
We overcame a hard time building the prototype of our web application and data extraction. Although the development pace was slow, we successfully encapsulated our basic idea into the web application. With all remaining data sets, generated the heat-map and interpreted the further details of the information.