Published: September 1, 2021
In September 2020, COVID-19 was spreading fast and was extremely dangerous, with people globally afraid of becoming infected. Before vaccinations became available, avoiding exposure was the only way to keep safe and minimize the spread.
In Finland, a group of passionate volunteers made it their mission to collect all available exposure data in a blog and report it on Twitter. Although the blog was a great asset to the public, maintaining it became very time-consuming. Data needed to be copied into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for further analysis, and the volunteers needed to create new charts and reports continually.