Dashboard Version 2

[jeanpaulrsoucy]

This issue will serve as a hub for planning version 2 of the dashboard, which will use our new CovidTimelineCanada dataset and focus on a smaller number of more meaningful metrics as we navigate the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Below is a rough outline of what we expect the dashboard to look like (single page):

1. Wastewater trends

• Highlight most reliable source of population-wide prevalence data
• Get people comfortable with reading and interpreting the infectious disease surveillance mechanism of the future

2. What is going on near you?

• Detailed data for individual provinces/health regions, with data to contextualize & text to help interpretation

3. Vaccination coverage

• Province-level vaccination coverage map/trends

4. Comparisons between provinces/health regions
5. Customizable visualizations

• Provide more options for customized visualizations/comparisons/tables (for power users)

Before development can begin, we must first address the following issues:

• Update data_updater.R to use CovidTimelineCanada (Update dashboard to use CovidTimelineCanada #45)
• Add wastewater data to CovidTimelineCanada (Add wastewater data CovidTimelineCanada#36)

As an additional note, it would be nice to work with a plotting framework that translates well to a simple HTML/JS page in case we lose access to a paid shinyapps.io account and need to transfer to a GitHub Pages-based deployment. ApexCharts.js is nice and is supported by the htmlwidgets library apexcharter.

[jeanpaulrsoucy]

Add the COVID Data Discussions page from COVID-19 Resources Canada as another thought-provoking resource: https://covid19resources.ca/data-discussions

[jeanpaulrsoucy]

Another idea for a plot could be republishing PHAC's variant data (maybe with some supplemental data acquired from various provincial data sources or even one of the large, collaborative sequence banks) combined with a table with links to learn more about emerging variants. Could have a drop-down menu for displaying federal data versus data from other places that report (Quebec, at minimum).

[kbelisar]

Tasks to Still Complete:

Aesthetics

Essential

• Address mortality data faceted plot y-axis going below 0 (apexcharter::ax_yaxis() arguments not working)
• Add either an About tab, or add an "about" description underneath the title (see UI wastewater shiny::tags$body("", align = "center") to add this)

Desirable

• Y-axis title for each facet
• X-axis text more detailed than just ~6months
• Menu bar permanently at the top
• Toggling of regions so that not all are on the plot at once
• Different mortality colour-scheme (greys?)

Data

Priority

• Additional wastewater if possible from other sources
• Hospitalizations by HR
• Mortality by HR
• Hospitalizations - discriminate by ICU and regular Hospital admissions
• Vaccination rates (booster + bivalent)

Future features

• Home page map of Canada with HRs providing overview of trends from past week (hover over increase, decrease etc.)