Covid-19 Death Toll Comparison

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Data is refreshed every day at 9am and 6pm.

I spotted a Ruby on Rails job that I thought I would be great for and was about to apply but was worried that since I've been working with Node.js recently instead of Ruby (current project is a Node.js microservices based API), that the lack of a current Rails project would hurt my application. I'd been thinking about doing something with Covid-19 data so I quickly wrote a Ruby script to aggregate some death counts and then translated the functionality into an Ruby on Rails API application. I then build this simple React UI to pull data from that API.

My thinking was that the CDC's data might show underreporting so I decided to compare it to other sources. Getting a definitive CDC figure was difficult so I decided to have the API scrape the CDC's HTML and use that as the figure.

The Ruby on Rails API is containerized in a docker-compose network that also contains a Redis server, and is deployed on an AWS EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2. NGINX is used for routing/SSL proxying.

The React UI uses Material-UI and is deployed on Netlify.

You can send requests to the API from non-browser origins to:

  • https://api.coviddeathtollcomparison.com/results
  • https://api.coviddeathtollcomparison.com/sources

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