Firefly Map of Coronavirus Case Locations
This map shows the global distribution of confirmed Coronavirus cases as of early March 2020, with each location rendered as a glowing firefly-like sprite. The visualization uses OpenLayers with a Stamen toner-lite basemap, and React manages the map lifecycle. Case locations are styled using a custom canvas-generated radial gradient sprite, created with d3’s cubehelix color functions to simulate a soft glow. Data comes from the Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 time series, loaded via d3.csv. The map updates over time by cycling through the dataset’s date columns.
AI-generated descriptionFirefly Cartography with OpenLayers and React.
Each point on the map is a location for which there was at least one confirmed Coronavirus case as of 3/5/2020. Each location is shown as the same size and intensity, regardless of how many cases there were (this is a shortcoming of this visualization).
Data from Johns Hopkins: CSSEGISandData/COVID-19;