by CivicMeter Staff | Jun 29, 2020 | COVID-19
We’ve been talking with journalists around the country during this crisis, and have seen some recurring opportunities to enhance COVID stories that feature a data component. Some of these points are well-known and oft-used; some are not. But they are all...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Models are being deployed help predict the spread of COVID-19 and generate new approaches to help stem the outbreak. Most of these modelers don’t work for the government. Rather, they are employed by universities and are hampered by lack of relationships with...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Health and Privacy, Public Health
Several countries in Southeast Asia are successfully combating COVID-19 by harvesting citizens’ personal information like location data and other data gathered from mobile apps. But these countries lack robust privacy laws, and the surveillance is taking place...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Steve Bennett, SAS’s director of government practice, attributes the dramatic improvement of the medical community’s ability to track and contain infectious outbreaks to the massive improvement of quickly deploy-able data analytics tools. “Speed is everything. Speed...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 19, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Graph databases are excellent at modeling interactions between people. This quality also makes graph databases a particularly effective tool for tracing the physical pathways along which viruses like Covid-19 travel through populations. Alex Woodie filed this report...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Since the SARS outbreak, advances in analytics and technology have supplied us with powerful tools that can help identify and contain viruses like COVID-19. But even the best tech and data have their limitations. Paul Dempsey writes for Engineering & Technology:...
