Reexamining the spread of COVID-19 using DDX Bricks

As Domo’s director of info insights, I get asked a great deal of queries about Domo solutions. But, for what ever purpose, there is 1 product function in particular that I get requested about the most: DDX Bricks.

DDX Bricks are facts application templates that enable you to produce small-code apps no make any difference your technical knowledge. But their enchantment extends much over and above that. They also are a great way for you to incorporate some wow factor to your visualizations—and, in turn, inform additional powerful knowledge tales.

Get, for occasion, the DDX brick-run map straight underneath, which demonstrates the distribute of COVID-19 in the U.S. more than the initially two months of 2022:

By owning a great deal of pre-constructed bricks to decide on from, DDX Bricks also reduced the barrier to producing your own facts app. Pick out the brick you want, join up the info, and voila!—you have a operating information story to notify.

If you want to improve or tweak some things in the brick, which is quick to do, also. Typically the code is commented with what distinct variables are, which tends to make changing them simple—even if you are not common with the language.

Scenario in stage: When I produced my first DDX brick all over the Tokyo 2020 Summertime Olympics, I experienced no expertise with JavaScript. But it did not make a difference I experienced a pre-made brick that was uncomplicated to modify, so I could tweak points such as the cycle time involving alterations, the exhibited day, and the cadence between date changes.

But back again to the COVID brick, which I made by modifying an additional brick from the Domo Appstore. I hear a great deal about animated maps displaying alterations above time, so I made a decision to produce a brick that shows accurately that, utilizing COVID scenario information more than time based mostly on 7-working day moving averages:

As you can see, the map tells a very appealing story. Choose the metric you would like to see (simply click on the grey, funnel-formed filter icon to get the filter bar and then select the Vaccinations watch) and it will dynamically change the houses of the visualization.

The dates will change to only include things like the dates that have knowledge for that metric. And the scales will change so that there is a one scale for that metric for the total timeframe of the info.

Actively playing by way of this map on the two distinctive metrics is appealing. When I appear at the new case rely, I anticipate to see a massive spike all-around the starting of COVID, representing the initial wave, but it does not truly demonstrate up. The wave that came as a result of at the beginning of 2022 dwarfs the initial wave. Maybe if I applied a log-scale it would far better clearly show the scaled-down waves.

Wanting at the range of vaccinations, the most significant wave was of course in the commencing, with smaller waves showing up later, most likely when boosters grew to become offered or other demographics became suitable for the vaccines.

The “Domo on Data” group is at the moment doing the job on changing these DDX Bricks showing maps over time into templates that will be available in the Domo Appstore. When they’re finished, I’ll update this submit, as well.

Over-all, the approach of creating them was pretty basic, and authorized me to convey to a info story in a way that I was not equipped to do before.