Data Science against COVID-19: The Valencian Experience

In this module, we explore the ELLIS Alicante Foundation’s Data-Science for COVID-19 team’s work in the Valencian region of Spain. The team was founded in response to the pandemic in March 2020 to assist policymakers in making informed, evidence-based decisions. The team tackles four different work areas: modeling human mobility, building computational epidemiological models, predictive models on the prevalence of the disease, and operating one of the largest online citizen surveys related to COVID-19 in the world. This lecture explains the four work streams and shares lessons learned from their work at the intersection between data, AI, and the pandemic.

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