🏥 Healthcare Facilities Dashboard

A Dash-based interactive web application that visualizes healthcare facilities in Kenya using data from the EnergyData.info CKAN API and shapefile-based county boundaries.

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📌 Features

• 🗺️ Interactive map displaying healthcare facilities by county
• 🏥 Facility names shown on hover
• 🧭 County boundaries overlayed using a shapefile
• 🐍 Built with Python, Dash, Plotly, GeoPandas, and CKAN API

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📊 Data Sources

• Healthcare Facilities: EnergyData.info CKAN API
• County Boundaries: Local shapefile (County.shp and associated files)

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🛠 Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/healthcare-dashboard.git
cd healthcare-dashboard

2. Create and activate a virtual environment

Windows:

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

macOS/Linux:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install the required dependencies

If a requirements.txt file exists:

pip install -r requirements.txt

If not, install modules manually and then generate the file:

pip install dash pandas geopandas plotly requests
pip freeze > requirements.txt

4. Add the shapefile for county boundaries

Ensure the following shapefile components are present:

County.shp

County.shx

County.dbf

County.prj

Place them inside a directory called shp in the project root:

markdown

healthcare-dashboard/
├── app.py
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
└── shp/
    ├── County.shp
    ├── County.shx
    ├── County.dbf
    └── County.prj

In your script, reference the shapefile like this:

python
gpd.read_file('shp/County.shp')

🚀 Run the App

After activating the virtual environment, run:

python app.py

Then open your browser and navigate to:

http://127.0.0.1:8050/

Sample