lesliexin / waterworks

An interactive heatmap of where Waterloo students have cried on campus 💧

WaterWorks

What are you doing?

An experimental art project: a heatmap of where people’ve cried on UWaterloo campus.

But why?

The easy answer is “to show you that you’re not alone!”, though true, that’d be way too cliche to be in an artist’s statement. We want you to know that feeling sad and expressing it are not bad things, it’s a valid experience. But when it does get bad, we believe mental health crises are not just solved through reactive resources, but also through proactive conversations and strengthened emotional awareness. We also know the only way to get into the heads of some of you Waterloo folks is through data, so, I guess that’s what got us here. Also, just because it’s fun.

Implementation

Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

• yarn start Runs the react app in the development mode at http://localhost:3000.

• yarn start-api Runs the flask app at http://localhost:5000.

• yarn test Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.

• yarn build Builds the app for production to the build folder.

Sources

Structure

• This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.
• https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-to-create-a-react--flask-project

Map

• https://www.mapbox.com/
• https://leafletjs.com/
• https://react-leaflet.js.org/