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Wednesday, July 27 • 1:30pm - 1:50pm
How Anchorage Built Alaska’s Vaccine Finder with R

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In January 2021, Alaska residents seeking a COVID-19 vaccine appointment faced a convoluted maze of websites. The software was made for providers—not for residents.

The Anchorage Innovation Team built a fast, and mobile vaccine finder website for Alaska using R. What started as a web scraping prototype launched statewide one week later and ultimately connected tens of thousands of Alaskans to a vaccine.

This talk will cover how we used R to build Alaska's vaccine finder. Including:

  • Scraping and http packages (rvest & httr)
  • Using Heroku and S3 to run R jobs 24/7
  • Creating a flexible data service with R
Speakers
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Ben Matheson

Municipality of Anchorage Innovation Team
Ben Matheson is the Data Analyst for the Anchorage Innovation Team— a startup inside city government—where he helps people solve problems using data and technology. Ben works extensively with R and JavaScript to analyze data, visualize ideas, and build tools. He has worked as... Read More →

Wednesday July 27, 2022 1:30pm - 1:50pm EDT
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