Over the summer of 2020, Dr. Chris Prener from SLU's Sociology Department created and has been maintaining COVID-Daily-Viz which is his COVID-19 data tracking website. His website features highly detailed and accurate data that he compiles from numerous sources. Dr. Prener's site has been featured on multiple news sources and has been a great way for the general public to attain accurate data during the pandemic.

Our task this year was to further assist Dr. Prener in developing his site. One major improvement our team was able to accomplish was expanding the data Dr. Prener could collect. This meant being able to extract data from various platforms such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, etc. Our team has also worked on creating a server for Dr. Prener so the data scraping process can be automated as much as possible. Another major accomplishment was we were able to recreate Dr. Prener's website mainly using React and Node.js. The newer site features various methods of dynamic data visualization that users can interact with. In addition to the dynamic charts, we have also improved some of the site's visual aspects that help to create a more appealing and simplistic environment. Whether it was automating data scraping or creating a new website, our team was ready to adapt to any challenge we faced this year as none of us were familiar with any of the aforementioned fields.

We would like to thank Dr. Prener's continued patience and communication this year during the development of this project. The volatile circumstances created by the pandemic surely put our project's state in turmoil at times. However, Dr. Prener during those times was understanding and helped us greatly.