Seems like I've got the update baton for Day 26 of VaccinateCA.com . Here's what we did today to get Californians accurate info on the availability of the vaccine:
* Called hundreds of pharmacies and wrote down what they said for publication on site.
* Called hundreds of pharmacies and wrote down what they said for publication on site.
* Worked on redesign of our calling app. On Day 1 it was a one-size-fits-all experience; we're just calling about the vaccine, right?
Soon we'll have multiple location types (pharmacies, doctors offices, etc), multiple call goals (discovery, refresh of info, QA, debugging), ...
Soon we'll have multiple location types (pharmacies, doctors offices, etc), multiple call goals (discovery, refresh of info, QA, debugging), ...
... multiple types of callers (senior ones with charm and ability to improvise, fresh volunteers still getting used to the phone, call center workers in various places, etc).
And so we want to make the calling app more usable and more configurable by our project, to handle these
And so we want to make the calling app more usable and more configurable by our project, to handle these
* We had multiple conversations, still under FrieNDA, with various organizations about them giving us data, us giving them data to display through their own channels, or some collaborative software development. Spans the gamut of potential counterparties; lots in flight.
* We did a lot of crufty organizational work to have an existence the rest of the world can interface with. We have an EIN now, for example. This doesn't accelerate our ability to find vaccine *today*, but will allow us to e.g. hire and thereby accelerate in near future.
We also continued the usual work on improving data freshness, cross-checking results with multiple callers to improve accuracy, increasing our call efficiency, and preparing for more horizontal scaling across institution types.
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