Skoll Global Threats Fund Community Map

Column Five partnered with the Skoll Global Threats Fund to design and develop a dynamic and thoughtfully built community of practice website for EndingPandemics.org. I was one of two developers at Column Five that worked on this project. My responsibility was the community map. The other developer worked on the WordPress side.

The map data is stored in WordPress and accessed with simple hidden elements on the page. The front end takes those hidden elements and turns them into map data for interaction. This facilitates the ability to update the map from WordPress and filter it using the options on the left. The map is created and manipulated with D3 and the view state is achieved through KnockoutJS.