The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
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The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
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Re: The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
#2I like the UI design in figure 1. There’s no crap in the way of the data but i don’t feel overwhelmed either. My eyes can scan across sections and it feels natural, theres no firehose effect. I like the thought that’s gone into showing the % vaccinated in the top right. I like the dashed underlines telling me that some explainatory text is available.
I think the page looks inoffensive but is clearly focussed on being informative. I wish more data repositories took care and attention towards how data is represented.
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#3I would have preferred to see it implemented as a spreadsheet in the cloud.
Re: The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
#4I like the UI design in figure 1. There’s no crap in the way of the data but i don’t feel overwhelmed either. My eyes can scan across sections and it feels natural, theres no firehose effect. I like the thought that’s gone into showing the % vaccinated in the top right. I like the dashed underlines telling me that some explainatory text is available. I think the page looks inoffensive but is clearly focussed on being…
I think GOV.UK in general does a very good job of making important information readily available. It’s however extra jarring switching between the clean/efficient style of the online messaging and the underlying public services/offices that are still held together by chewing gum and a fax machine, whenever you have some issue that can only be resolved by persuading a human to stamp some paper (Visas, public records, etc.)
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#5I do wonder if the power of a distributed database is really needed here;
it gets ~1 update a day, so there's no need to have clever consistency stuff.
Most of the queries relate to either today's data (you open the map and zoom in to see how doomed your area is today), or the graphs showing a standard set of history (e.g. cases over the last year).
You'd think you could extract that data to be static and not require database queries, and only fire up the database for the tiny proportion that go digging in history.
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#6The covid dashboard I've found the nicest to use, is actually not one of the official ones but instead this https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker... .
The information is presented clearly and it's easy to see what's going on, although in my case the main reason is the breakdown for Argyll & Bute, which isn't a focus area for the national ones!
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#7I like the UI design in figure 1. There’s no crap in the way of the data but i don’t feel overwhelmed either. My eyes can scan across sections and it feels natural, theres no firehose effect. I like the thought that’s gone into showing the % vaccinated in the top right. I like the dashed underlines telling me that some explainatory text is available. I think the page looks inoffensive but is clearly focussed on being…
In general the gov.uk website is stellar. Lots of good info, and plenty of thought has gone into making everything clear, accessible and pleasing to the eye. Things generally work in a way that they really don't on most public org websites. The team behind it blog a fair bit about how they've made these things happen.
https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk
The only downside is that they often send you to sites run by other, significantly less competent bodies (looking at you, student loans company).
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#8https://github.com/publichealthengland powered by a lot of Python and Ruby, nice.
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#10> From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Kingdom (UK) government has made it a top priority to track key health metrics and to share those metrics with the public.
According to Dominic Cummings (ex-adviser to the PM), this isn't true at all - one of their biggest failings early on was to not have the data and not see the priority in getting it.[1]
[1] https://news.sky.com/story/dominic-cummings-hearing-the-insi... : He added later that there was no data system at that point, and he needed to use his iphone as a calculator to make predictions about the extent to which infections would spread, which he then wrote down on a white board.