CGIS Graduate students Yao Li and Zheng Liu and Assistant Research Professor Dr. Junchuan Fan have worked together on the "Rapid deployment of open-source mapping tools to track the progression of COVID-19 in the United States", which has been selected as the winner of the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group Health Data Visualization contest (interactive visualization group) for AAG 2020. The project can be viewed here: https://mgzjys.github.io/US_Covid19_Index/. Hai Lan, Jeff Sauer, Zhiyue Xia, and Guimin Zhu also assisted with the maps.
The two maps tracking positive COVID cases since the beginning of the outbreak have been getting a lot of attention both for the important content that both maps present as well as for their use of open source tools for mapping.
