During a pandemic, data saves lives.

The all-volunteer-made COVID Care Map serves as a data science and visualization platform to help understand the healthcare capacity gap at the country, state, and county levels. The open-source tool maps resources like beds, ventilators, supplies and hospital staff, and its dataset aims to build an understanding of existing health capacity gaps as COVID-19 spreads and patients are in need of effective care.

Half a dozen engineers and designers at Callowhill-based GIS company Azavea are helping to develop the map. Rob Emanuele, Azavea’s VP of research, oversees all research and development at Azavea, including open-source projects, and told Technical.ly he’s been dedicating most of his time to working on the COVID Care Map. CEO Robert Cheetham thought contributing was an appropriate use of the company’s volunteer and disaster response time.

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