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Epidemiologists Use Lessons From Weather Forecasters to Model Flu Spread

by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health

The weather forecast is notoriously unreliable. But with the aid of better data sources and analytics, they have become much more accurate in the short term than they used to be. Epidemiologists who model the spread of flu face some of the same challenges. And...

How Analytics Help Cities Contain Public Health Threats

by CivMetrics Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health

Data-driven techniques and technologies help smart cities identify when and where outbreaks begin, model how the outbreaks would spread, and advise how outbreaks could be contained. Katie Pyzyk filed this report for smartcitiesdive.com: Analytics technology provides a...