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Epidemic Modelers At Front Line of Fight Vs. COVID-19

Epidemic Modelers At Front Line of Fight Vs. COVID-19

by CivMetrics 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...

In Fighting Off COVID-19, Southeast Asia Raises Questions About Data Privacy in Public Health Emergencies

by CivMetrics 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...

Data Analytics Has Gotten Speedier Since SARS. Has Public Health Policy Kept Up?

by CivMetrics 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...

Graph Databases: A Potent Tool For Coronavirus Modeling

by CivMetrics 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...
Fighting COVID-19 Puts Big Data’s Strengths, and Limitations, On Display

Fighting COVID-19 Puts Big Data’s Strengths, and Limitations, On Display

by CivMetrics 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:...
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