Heads Up Display

The Heads Up Display (HUD) was a project to create better insights into real-world data for the communications department of the disaster management department of Groningen. This web app leans heavily on external data provided by sources like the RIVM, KNMI, Google and the fire department. The Python collects the data, creates graphs, classifies trends and then color codes the trends according to sentiment. This creates one relatively simple to read collection of colored bars, which will show you at a glance what issues are currently going on.

This application is mainly built in Python. It creates all the graphs and then builds the webpage. There was no possibility on the infrastructure to run something like Flask. The page itself is static HTML based on Bootstrap.

This webapp was built as a proof-of-concept to show the worth of constant data monitoring in a crisis management environment. It was made on a 0 dollar budget.

The detail page shows the graphs of data which in turn feed the colors on the main display. This way you get to delve into the data and see why the color shows as elevated. As an extra, there was an email script added to send notifications too.

Project Details

Client: Veiligheidsregio Groningen

Date: Summer 2022