Emergency Management
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Building an affordable local news multiviewer with the HDHomeRun Flex 4K
One of my favorite parts of an Emergency Operations Center is the wall of screens up front that provide all sorts of situational awareness information. Typically at least one screen is dedicated to monitoring local or national news. Typically these displays are managed by expensive and complex AV setups, installed by professional vendors. For my…
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Building a COVID19 Data Dashboard for Rhode Island
Full version at covidRI.com (no longer active) This week I created a simple dashboard for COVID19 related data released by the state of Rhode Island. It tracks the following key COVID19 metrics in Rhode Island: Both current/cumulative and historical data for these metrics are shown with graphs and day over day change annotated to visualize trends.…