The corona virus causes fear and many questions for many people. A 17-year-old student launches website and uses it to inform millions.
- Used worldwide by coronavirus operated by teenagers.
- Facts and figures about corona virus are easily accessible there.
- Millions of users learn about the pandemic from the 17-year-old .
Seattle, USA - Avi Schiffmann has created something that many young people can only dream of: a website with several million visitors a day. The circumstances of the foundation are rather sad. On his website, nCoV2019.live , the 17-year-old student provides people around the world with information about the coronavirus - from numbers of people infected to deaths. That is his story.
Coronavirus: 17-year-old student is the inventor of a website that has been clicked millions of times
The 17-year-old high school student Avi Schiffmann from Seattle in the USA has been programming since childhood and started tracking the corona virus in December and putting news online. He has tapped into a Chinese government network to get new information about the coronavirus directly from Wuhan. Now the number of users of the website has exploded and with it the flow of information on the page. With the help of scraping software, the young person gets data from all over the world on his computer and integrates it in an automatic process on his website .
With the help of web scraping, it is possible to extract targeted data from the Internet and have it read out automatically by software. In this way, the 17-year-old Avi Schiffmann can filter information that is relevant to the subject of corona virus and thereby rule out incorrect information or duplication - an extremely important step, especially in times of fake news, as the teenager explains in an interview with the German Press Agency.
The 17-year-old's Coronaviurs website provides information about the virus to millions of visitors.
© Avi Schiffmann
The parents receive support in managing the website . Both have experience with medical data. His father is a medical journalist and his mother a doctor. However, Avi Schiffmann is not interested in the medical background, he is more interested in the data and the gathering of information. Reliable sources and the detection of fake news are particularly important to the 17-year-old high school student in such a situation.
Coronavirus in numbers: 17-year-old student looks to the future despite reaching millions
The website for information about the coronavirus reaches a visit number of 20 million within 24 hours. In an interview, Avi Schiffmann also reports on thousands of interview requests and compliments from users who arrive at him every second. In February 2020, a total of 144 million users obtained new information about the corona virus on the website of the 17-year-old from Seattle .
The 17-year-old's Coronaviurs website has several million visitors a day.
© Avi Schiffmann
There is a lot of praise from users. The overviews on nCoV2019.live are well designed and the sources are reliable. The numbers of newly infected and deceased also appear timely and correct. But Avi is far from satisfied with his website . The student has already planned some updates for March and April.
Pipeline for the rest of this month (March):
1. Vaccine tracker
2. Completely new map that syncs w / data from the data page
3. Re-doing the breakdowns to have it formatted for each continent
4. HOPEFULLY graphs, they are very difficult
5. Translations
And lots more for April :)
Avi wants to create a tracker for the current work on the various vaccines so that people around the world can find out details about a possible cure. He also planned to include graphs. In this way, even complex data can be presented in an easily explainable manner. With more translations, Schiffmann plans to carry the flow of information about the corona virus to several countries where English is not very common as a language.
When asked how the student came up with the idea of creating a website to combat the corona virus and where his skills came from, the 17-year-old confidently replied that he had largely acquired his knowledge using tutorials on YouTube and Co. The committed youth spent every free minute on the computer, the conversation also said. After all, schools in Seattle have long since closed, and indoor hobbies such as live streams on Twitch * and video games are becoming increasingly popular.
As a gambler, you can also take part in the fight against the virus after numerous trade fair cancellations *. There is also fold.it, a game with which you can support researchers in their search for a cure *.
* ingame.de is part of the nationwide editorial network of the Ippen-Digital-Zentralredaktion
Rubric list image: © Avi Schiffmann
