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:...
by CivMetrics Staff | Mar 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
Taiwan took to heart its hard-earned lessons from the SARS outbreak and is now one of the success stories in the struggle against COVID-19. Beth Duff-Brown writes for Stanford Health Policy: Stanford Health Policy’s Jason Wang, MD, PhD, an associate professor of...
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...
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...
