Web-Based COVID-19 Dashboards and Trackers in the United States: Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic provided an opportunity to use public-facing web data visualization tools to help citizens understand the evolving status of the outbreak. Given the heterogeneity of data sources, developers, tools, and designs used in this effort, it raised questions about how visualizations were constructed during a time when daily batches of data were available, but issues of data quality and standardization were unresolved.

Objective

This paper surveyed web-based COVID-19 dashboards and trackers that are likely to be used by the residents of the United States to monitor the spread of infection on a local, national, and global scale. This study is intended to provide insights that will help application developers increase the usefulness, transparency, an

SUBMITTER: Clarkson MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10029858 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature