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Civic hacking CDC notifiable diseases

Building a map of weekly notifiable disease cases across the United States.

By Luke Fretwell · December 31, 2022

(This post is part of an ongoing series documenting adventures in father-son civic hacking.)

README

We built a hoverable map of weekly notifiable disease cases across the United States using the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System API provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prention.

Data

Data used for this project:

Kudos

Big kudos to CDC for:

  • Maintaining a developer portal and public API.

Demo

Notifiable diseases page on USA.GovFresh:

Screenshot of USA.GovFresh notifiable diseases page

Feedback

Share your feedback on the USA.GovFresh repo.