COVID19-VA

Ingestion, visualization, and querying tool based on Covid-19 Virginia cases.

Development & Setup

Create some sort of virtual environment before you install covid the CLI tool. Covid is the standardized tool that can be used to utilize Virginia Coronvirus data by ingesting, visualizing, and querying it.

Activate Virtual Environment

# Activate your virtual enviroment!
# In the root of the project / repository
$ cd covid19-va/
$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate

Install Covid CLI Tool

# Install the dataio cli tool
# In the root of the project / repository
$ cd covid19-va/
$ pip install --editable .

The --editable flag will allow for you to make edits to code without having to re-run pip install ... locally.

Validate The Install

Run covid --verison to verify the installation was successful.

$ covid --version
covid version: v0.1.0

Showing The Tool Capabilities

Run covid to learn what the tool does and the commands you can run with it.

$ covid

Usage: covid [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Covid is a tool to run data ingestion, serve it via a REST API, and
  visualize the data.

Options:
  --home DIRECTORY  Project folder to operate on.
  -v, --verbose     Enables verbose mode.
  --version         Print the current version of bessy.
  --help            Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  create     Create the Virginia Covid-19 table.
  fetch      Fetch the Virginia Covid-19 case data.
  ingest     Ingest the Virginia Covid-19 case data.
  list       List the Virginia Covid-19 case data.
  total      Get the total Virginia Covid-19 case data.
  visualize  Visualize the Virginia Covid-19 case data.

Fetching Virginia Covid-19 Dataset

The data that is being used for this tool comes from the Virginia Department of Health. The best thing about using this dataset is that they update it daily. In order to get the data locally, covid has a command that allows you to fetch the dataset so you can get the most updated one.

$ covid fetch