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The Growing Role of AI in the Post-Vaccine World

Business + Management Healthcare Coronavirus COVID 19posted by April Miller September 27, 2021

A common theme that surrounds the pandemic and post-vaccine world is the idea of adaptability. Businesses, schools, and families changed rapidly for the sake of everyone’s health and safety. This meant avoiding contact and shifting into virtual environments — an option that’s only possible in the... Read more

Fake News: Where Do We Stand in the Fight Against Disinformation

Conferences Deep Learning Modeling COVID 19 East 2021 Fake Newsposted by ODSC Community February 23, 2021

If you’re familiar with conspiracy theories regarding COVID-19 vaccines, Barack Obama’s birthplace, or Hillary Clinton’s ties to “Pizzagate”, you’ve experienced only a fraction of contemporary disinformation. With the rise of social media and its capacity for viral posts and fake news, disinformation campaigns have become a common... Read more

The Psychic Syndrome: How the Data Science Community Forgot About the Data

Guest contributor Modeling Coronavirus COVID 19posted by ODSC Community January 8, 2021

When scrolling through social media in March of this year, I could not help but notice the overwhelming amount of data science projects on COVID-19. At some point, it seemed like all LinkedIn or Twitter consisted of were forecasts of how the pandemic might play out... Read more

Why Personal COVID-19 Vaccination Data Should Remain Private

Featured Post Guest contributor Coronavirus COVID 19posted by David Talby January 5, 2021

Earlier this month, it was reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) instructed states to sign data use agreements that commit them for the first time to sharing personal information—names, birth dates, ethnicities, and addresses—in existing registries with the federal government. This comes... Read more

COVID Tracking Project Enhancements to Johns Hopkins Case/Fatality Data

Data Visualization Modeling Coronavirus COVID 19posted by Steve Miller December 7, 2020

Like many analytics geeks, I’ve been tracking data on the Covid pandemic since early spring. My main source is the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, with files for download made available at midnight Central time. I’ve established a pretty significant R infrastructure in... Read more

Retraining Machine Learning Models in the Wake of COVID-19

Machine Learning Modeling COVID 19posted by ODSC Community November 18, 2020

Originally posted here by Doordash, with permission. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic created significant changes in how people took their meals, causing greater demand for food deliveries. These changes impacted the accuracy of DoorDash’s machine learning (ML) demand prediction models. ML models rely on patterns... Read more

Julia for Management/Analysis of Johns Hopkins COVID Data

Modeling Coronavirus COVID 19 Juliaposted by Steve Miller November 3, 2020

Like many analytics geeks, I’ve been tracking data on the Covid pandemic since early spring. My source is the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, with files for download made available at midnight Central time. I’ve established a pretty significant R infrastructure in JupyterLab to... Read more

AI and the Fight Against Covid-19

Conferences Featured Post Coronavirus COVID 19 West 2020posted by ODSC Community October 16, 2020

The ever-expanding capabilities of AI evoke fear in some quarters. On one side you have prominent AI researchers, like Stuart Russell, warning about impending disaster, and on the other, you have equally notable scholars, like Andrew Ng, offering a more tempered view. I support the notion... Read more

Gain Insight Into the COVID-19 Pandemic with the HPCC Systems Data Lake Platform

Modeling Big Data COVID 19 COVID-19 Data Source Data Lake HPCC Systems Pandemic Metrics SARS-Cov-2posted by ODSC Community September 24, 2020

This open-source project features a community contribution cluster which can be made available to ODSC followers. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) has taken around 930,000 lives and infected more than 29 million people worldwide so far. The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, and... Read more

Building a COVID-19 Dashboard with Tableau

Data Visualization Modeling COVID 19posted by ODSC Community June 22, 2020

We all are experts in telling stories with words and sentences. But, have you ever heard of telling stories with data? This sounds intriguing. Well, it sounded the same for me too. Being able to tell stories with data is a skill that is becoming ever... Read more