For our Interactive Qualifying Project, our team worked with the Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester to develop an online dashboard that displays public health data in a user-friendly and engaging way.
Project Sponsor: Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester
The Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester is a local nonprofit focused on developing and improving community health initiatives for Worcester and several other nearby towns. Check out their website to learn more about their work: https://www.healthygreaterworcester.org/
Student Researchers
Our team consists of four WPI students: Zachary Harris, Srikar Nekkanti, Logan O’Donnell, and Sam Furman.
Our Project
Our team worked to develop a user-friendly dashboard to consolidate community health information on various health indicators in an engaging format to serve the greater Worcester area. This served the dual purpose of providing lawmakers and healthcare leadership with the information required to make effective decisions on community health, as well as to assist the public with finding vital health data. See below a screen capture from our dashboard:
Goals and Objectives
Below are the objectives our team created and followed in order to achieve our goal of developing a useful dashboard for the Coalition:
- Identified Coalition goals and current data collection methods
- Established target audience
- Identified dashboard development tool requirements
- Selected dashboard development tool
- Prototyped the dashboard and made revisions
- Developed recommendations for the Coalition