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COVID-19 Symptom Evaluation App, Built with Watson, Becomes Call for Code Regional Finalist

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to spread, doctors and hospitals have been overwhelmed by anxious patients worried about a symptom and unclear on what COVID-19’s symptoms are or which warrant a visit to a medica Read more…

COVID-Era Schedules Are Longer and Messier. Can AI Help?

Odds are, if you worked in an office before COVID-19, your schedule looks a lot different now than it did then. With many companies continuing to rely on work-from-home (WFH) arrangements, making use of Zoom and other te Read more…

New Analytics Tools Predict COVID-19 Patient Mortality

One of the most urgent needs in the care of patients with COVID-19 is a better understanding of which patients will require more intensive treatment and attention. Now, researchers from Oklahoma State University’s Cent Read more…

COVID-19 Roundup: AI, Brussels, Climate Change & More

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big Read more…

Mobility Data Illuminates Climate Change Pathways for a Post-COVID-19 World

The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed human activity around the world, quieting nearly every aspect of pre-pandemic modern life. The effects of this global pause have been felt by civilians and researchers alike: skies have c Read more…

COVID-19 Roundup: Risk, Reopening, Recognition & More

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big Read more…

AWS re:Invent Goes Virtual (and Free) as COVID-19 Conference Cancellations Continue

AWS re:Invent has been re-imagined as a free, three-week virtual conference taking place in early December, Amazon Web Services announced last week, as the fall lineup of physical tech conferences continues to dwindle as Read more…

Collibra, Tableau Team on COVID Data Catalog

Data intelligence vendor Collibra has compiled a COVID-19 data catalog combining open data sets, business domain glossaries and other reference data that have been integrated with Tableau’s COVID-19 Data Hub. The da Read more…

New AI Software Helps Businesses Reopen During the Pandemic

As COVID-19 continues to surge in many countries around the world, businesses small and large are struggling to navigate a completely transformed (and partially decimated) global economy for an indeterminate period of ti Read more…

Citizen Science Data Helps to Unearth Seismic Noise Reduction from COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous chilling effect on global society. For months, everything from shopping to traffic slowed around the world, and people even began noticing measurable changes in wildlife populati Read more…

COVID-19 Roundup: Dashboards, Datasets, Data Mining & More

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big Read more…

COVID-19 Roundup: At-Risk Counties, Individualism, the New Normal & More

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big Read more…

Researchers Explore Link Between American Individualism and Poor COVID-19 Response

The U.S. is only home to around 4% of the world’s population – but it’s also home to over a quarter of the confirmed coronavirus cases to date. As other countries bring COVID-19 cases to manageable numbers and caut Read more…

In a World Without Music Festivals, Zyro’s AI Recreates Headliners at Home

If you’re a fan of live music, 2020 has been an extraordinarily bad year for you. From Bonnaroo and Burning Man to Eurovision and Lollapalooza, music festivals around the world have been put on an indefinite pause unti Read more…

Sandia Labs Model Predicts COVID-19 Cases Over a Week into the Future

Just over the last several weeks, the United States’ COVID-19 trajectory has dramatically changed, shifting from a promising decline to a terrifying spike that may eclipse the first. Policy-makers are struggling to mak Read more…

Poor Data Hurts COVID-19 Contact Tracing, CDC Director Says

The lack of accurate and timely data about COVID-19 infections has hampered the government’s ability to perform contact tracing, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, testifie Read more…

FAU Researchers to Create AI-Powered COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool

As the pandemic rears its head in the United States, attention is turning once again to the relative risk of infection in various areas across the country. Now, a team of researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU Read more…

Salesforce Launches COVID-19 Search to Sift Through Pandemic Studies

COVID-19 is generating research at a rate commensurate with its infections. As millions of cases spread across the world, hundreds of thousands of research papers are pouring into journals, overwhelming researchers in th Read more…

Virtual Conference Season Shifts Into Overdrive on June 22

Thanks to limitations on large gatherings due to COVID-19, the normally active spring conference season has been a total bust, forcing the data and analytics communities underground. But virtual activity has been ramping Read more…

COVID-19 Gives AI a Reality Check

While it seems unlikely that AI will enter another nuclear winter, the current COVID-19 situation is giving enterprises the opportunity to rethink their AI strategies, giving the better AI projects more room to run, whil Read more…

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