Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class

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Post by djsegal » Wed, May 13, 2020, 8:28 AM UTC

Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class
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Re: Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class

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Post by djsegal » Wed, May 13, 2020, 8:32 AM UTC

I was a teaching assistant for 6S083, an undergraduate course on Julia focusing on Covid-19 modeling.

Decided to turn all the problem sets into a set of interactive dashboards. Hope you enjoy!

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// also the stack is julia+jupyter for the data, jekyll+tailwindui for the website

Re: Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class

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Post by LandR » Wed, May 13, 2020, 9:54 AM UTC

Annoying if you turn countries off in the graph, then change the slider for days they all turn back on again.

Re: Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class

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Post by KMag » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:04 AM UTC

djsegal wrote: post #2

I was a teaching assistant for 6S083, an undergraduate course on Julia focusing on Covid-19 modeling. Decided to turn all the problem sets into a set of interactive dashboards. Hope you enjoy! - // also the stack is julia+jupyter for the data, jekyll+tailwindui for the website

Is the class explicitly about Julia? Based on my experience, I would have expected there to be a data science class that incidentally required (and helped) you learn Julia along the way. Back when I was at MIT (shortly after a couple Course 12 grad students invented dirt), I don't think any classes were explicitly about single languages. 6.001 was teaching fundamentals of computing, and used Scheme to get there, but wasn't a class explicitly about Scheme. Likewise, 1.00 was how I learned C, but in the context of Civil Engineering problem solving.

There was an IAP seminar for a crash course on TCL/Tk and another IAP seminar crash course on Java, but neither of those were taught by professors nor yielded any units.

Re: Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class

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Post by candiodari » Wed, May 13, 2020, 12:27 PM UTC

Very nicely done. Is there a course on how to make these dashboards ?

Re: Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class

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Post by djsegal » Wed, May 13, 2020, 8:48 PM UTC

LandR wrote: post #3

Annoying if you turn countries off in the graph, then change the slider for days they all turn back on again.

Agreed, that's why I fixed it in another project:

  + https://github.com/djsegal/SimplePlots.jl/blob/6e29e3f6d21e0502f2bdcb2a9ab81480d0bf492e/src/init.jl#L55-L67

Just haven't made the change to this site yet.

Re: Show HN: Covid-19 Dashboard for MIT's Julia Class

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Post by djsegal » Wed, May 13, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

KMag wrote: post #4

djsegal wrote: post #2

I was a teaching assistant for 6S083, an undergraduate course on Julia focusing on Covid-19 modeling. Decided to turn all the problem sets into a set of interactive dashboards. Hope you enjoy! - // also the stack is julia+jupyter for the data, jekyll+tailwindui for the website

Is the class explicitly about Julia? Based on my experience, I would have expected there to be a data science class that incidentally required (and helped) you learn Julia along the way. Back when I was at MIT (shortly after a couple Course 12 grad students invented dirt), I don't think any classes were explicitly about single languages. 6.001 was teaching fundamentals of computing, and used Scheme to get there, but…

May have shortened the title a bit:

"Introduction to Computational Thinking with Julia, with applications to modelling the COVID-19 pandemic"