Items tagged vaccinateca in Mar, 2021
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The Airtable formulas at the heart of everything
While working on building a Counties.json API endpoint for VIAL I realized I wasn’t entirely sure how the “Total reports” and “Yeses” numbers in this piece of JSON were calculated:
[... 323 words]VIAL is now live, plus django-sql-dashboard
Our new Django backend has now officially graduated from preview mode! We’ve been running it to collect caller reports for Oregon for over a week now, and today we finally turned off the old Heroku app and promoted https://vial.calltheshots.us/ to be the place that our caller app writes to.
[... 672 words]Weeknotes: tableau-to-sqlite, django-sql-dashboard
This week I started a limited production run of my new backend for Vaccinate CA calling, built a tableau-to-sqlite import tool and started working on a subset of Datasette for PostgreSQL and Django called django-sql-dashboard.
APIs for importing locations
An important aspect of the new backend is the ability to import new locations.
[... 254 words]New call queue ready to test. Also geography.
I just shipped the first working preview version of the new /api/requestCall API [#54]—the API that our caller app uses to get the next location that the caller should be contacting (and lock it so that other users don’t call it at the same time).
Weeknotes: Datasette and Git scraping at NICAR, VaccinateCA
This week I virtually attended the NICAR data journalism conference and made a ton of progress on the Django backend for VaccinateCA (see last week).
[... 773 words]The simplest possible call queue
Today I’ve been working on the queue calling mechanism for the new Django backend.
[... 471 words]Replaying logs to exercise the new API
22 days ago n1mmy pushed a change to help.vaccinate which logged full details of inoming Netlify function API traffic to an Airtable database.
API ready for testing, first video status update
To celebrate GitHub’s new support for drag-and-dropping mp4 files into Markdown, I decided to switch things around a little and include a video update with today’s blog entry.
[... 656 words]Drawing the rest of the owl
My ambitious goal for the day was to get the new Django/PostgreSQL preview into a state where we could start sending example API requests to it from the help.vaccinate app.