Tracking COVID 19 with Ruby - Olivier Lacan

Programmers are not epidemiologists, but epidemiologists have never needed programmers more. Not for our viral opinions but for our ability to retrieve large data sets and make them understandable through expressive code. As the pandemic was silently taking hold in the United States in early 2020, I used simple web and Ruby tools to gather invaluable data from often obscure state data sources in order to understand the extent of the pandemic in my area. I never expected this would lead me to become a contributor to the pirate CDC. Olivier Lacan Olivier likes to use computers to help people. He maintained Code School for many years and now builds tools to support exciting new learning modalities at Pluralsight. He created those Shields.io badges that plaster your open source READMEs and tried to make those same projects more accessible with Keep a Changelog. Recently, he contributed to the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic and focused on uncovering pandemic data for the state of Florida.