johnnyapol / rpicovidscraper

scraper for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)'s Covid Dashboard

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About Me

• 👨‍💻 Fluent in Python, C, C++, Java, and Javascript
• 🎓 B.S. Computer Science & Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
• 💻 Linux

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rpicovidscraper's Issues

Have multiple positive thumbnails / negative thumbnails

c6a4390 brought a change to differentiate the thumbnails based on 24 hour case data.

It would be cool to have two separate arrays, positive_thumbnails and negative_thumbnails that are randomly chosen at runtime.

Scrape COVID communications

https://covid19.rpi.edu/communications

Can post a link (or maybe the post) to discord when available.

Thoughts: @elihschiff (since academic discord is our largest stakeholder)

Remove PSA after update on Friday

Add quiet mode

RPI released their plans for how the transition from in-person to fully online until the Spring will go.

Driven by our focus to protect the health and safety of the Rensselaer community, and to reduce the risk from COVID-19 disease, the last day of in-person academic instruction for the fall semester will be Friday, November 20, 2020. Classes for the remainder of the fall semester will be delivered remotely.

COVID-19 Testing

Based on our ongoing T3SQ(I) protocol testing frequency, all students with access to campus will be tested within 72 hours prior to traveling away from campus.

Only faculty and staff who are designated as "Essential" by each portfolio owner will have access to the campus over the Thanksgiving holiday (November 26 through November 29, 2020).

While there will be a reduced total number of overall tests conducted, due to fewer residential students, faculty, and staff requiring access to the campus, the frequency of testing will remain unchanged during the period of November 30, 2020 through January 11, 2021.

Students who remain on campus during the winter break (December 24, 2020 to January 3, 2021) will be tested for COVID-19 at least once during this period.

Given that testing is still going on, collecting the data will still be valuable - however, I think its best if the frequency of update being sent to the webhooks is slowed to prevent people from losing interest in the data.

Therefore, my proposal is to a "quiet mode" that will be enabled following Thanksgiving break until a week before class resumes for S21. While quiet mode is enabled, the webhook will only post when new cases are reported, and possibly a one-week summary of the testing numbers posted every friday or monday.

implement rolling 14 day case tracking

NYS covid metrics require a halt if 100 cases are reached in a two week period. RPI's dashboard only keeps track of the past week.

we can implement a rolling counter simply by having an array of length 14.

on each day:
write_pointer = (write pointer + 1) % 14
cases[write_pointer] = 24_hour_count
2week rolling = sum(cases)