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Firefly Map of Coronavirus Case Locations

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CCurran Kelleher
Last edited Mar 19, 2020
Created on Mar 16, 2020

A dark world map, styled with an inverted, semi-transparent basemap, displays glowing teal points marking the locations of confirmed Coronavirus cases as of March 5, 2020. Each location is represented by a single firefly-like sprite, with equal size and intensity regardless of case count, a noted shortcoming. The visualization uses React to manage the component lifecycle, an OpenLayers map with a Stamen toner-lite base layer, and custom canvas-generated radial gradients to create the glow effect. Data is sourced from the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 time series CSV, parsed with d3.csv.

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Work in progress...

Firefly 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;

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