In this contributed article, David Leichner is CMO at SQream, discusses how healthcare organizations are waging battles against cancer, diabetes and heart disease while also struggling to beat the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the fact all of these illnesses have different symptoms and causes they all have something in common. Big Data is being fed into models that can find potential treatment and cures.
Three Ways Data Scientists are Fighting COVID-19
June 20, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Data scientists in academia, non-profits, and the government have come together to track and respond to the economic & humanitarian impacts of the coronavirus. Put together by our friends over at SafeGraph, here are three ways data scientists are fighting COVID-19.
UCLA DataFest Winners Announced, Presentations Posted
June 16, 2020 by Leave a Comment
For the annual UCLA DataFest, student worked hard with data pertaining to the monumental challenge we are all facing: COVID-19. This year’s virtual version of ASA DataFest at UCLA brought forth unforeseen challenges and wonderful opportunities. This beloved tradition is generally a competition wherein groups of three to five students have just 48 hours to make sense of a huge data set and present their findings in five minutes, using just two slides.
Prioritize, Don’t Ration: AI Will Lead Healthcare through the Post-COVID Bottleneck
June 10, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, Ohad Arazi, Chief Executive Officer of Zebra Medical Vision, explains that while AI can’t yet fight the coronavirus directly, it can play a central role in creating the efficiency needed for healthcare professionals to get to as many cases possible, especially post-COVID-19.
How Data Collection During the Country’s Reopening Can Accelerate Return to Normalcy
June 6, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, Sheldon H. Jacobson, PhD,, Founder Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is an advocate for advanced-analytics-based modeling to monitor the spread of COVID-19. Every state reopening represents an opportunity to collect data and identify best practices that can benefit other states.
Big Data/COVID-19 News – 6/1/2020
June 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The big data ecosystem has come out strong to help combat the global coronavirus pandemic by announcing new products and services to help fight COVID-19. In this article, I’ve listed a number of the recent announcements along these lines. Kudos to all the vendors listed below, you may just make an important difference in getting the world past these trying times!
Big Data/COVID-19 News – 5/16/2020
May 16, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The big data ecosystem has come out strong to help combat the global coronavirus pandemic by announcing new products and services to help fight COVID-19. In this article, I’ve listed a number of the recent announcements along these lines. Kudos to all the vendors listed below, you may just make an important difference in getting the world past these trying times!
Big Data/COVID-19 News – 4/26/2020
April 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The big data ecosystem has come out strong to help combat the global coronavirus pandemic by announcing new products and services to help fight COVID-19. In this article, I’ve listed a number of the recent announcements along these lines. Kudos to all the vendors listed below, you may just make an important difference in getting the world past these trying times!
Thinking about Privacy in the Fight Against COVID-19
April 12, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, Guy Cohen, Head of Policy at Privitar, unpacks the process of location data and how it’s being used to combat coronavirus but falling short in privacy considerations, and calls for action from data privacy and IT leaders to ensure the steps we take in analyzing location data are necessary, well governed and time limited through transparency and choice, data minimalization, purpose limitation and anonymization.
Widespread Product Availability for COVID-19 Research
April 11, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The big data ecosystem has come out strong to help combat the global coronavirus pandemic by opening up their products and services to organizations that plan to carry out COVID-19 research. In this article, I’ve listed a number of the recent announcements along these lines. Kudos to all the vendors listed below, you may just make an important difference in getting the world past these trying times!
