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Using Big Data to Ensure Public Health Guidelines are Met
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority is using big data to ensure compliance with public health guidelines, reports the Government of Dubai.
Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has set up a digital platform using Big Data, to detect any lack of compliance with the physical distancing between riders of public buses in Dubai and take enforcement measures accordingly.
Read more...Big Data Encourages Collaboration
According to the Times of Malta, scientists from both “wet” and “dry” disciplines are able to use big data to combine their research.
‘Big Data’ has become a staple of scientific endeavour. The phrase crops up repeatedly in common parlance. It has become a buzzword synonymous with scientific effort, experimental complexity and data reliability.
Read more...Big Data Used in Covid Fight
Scientists have used big data in several projects designed to learn how to beat the Covid-19 virus, reports the Scientist.
Although cough and fever have been considered the most tell-tale signs of COVID-19, in May, researchers published a study suggesting that loss of smell and taste were better able to predict who would test positive for the disease.
Read more...Big Data Informs Policy in Japan
In Japan the central bank is using big data to help inform policy decisions, reports Reuters.
The coronavirus pandemic may have caused structural changes in Japan’s economy and the way it affects inflation, requiring the Bank of Japan to tap more deeply into big data in making policy decisions, the central bank’s top economist said on Thursday.
Read more...Big Data Could Derail Covid Fight
Researchers are rushing to use big data to fight Covid-19 without taking into consideration big data’s shortcomings, reports ReadWrite.
The Coronavirus Pandemic has spurred interest in big data to track the spread of the fast-moving pathogen and to plan disease prevention efforts.
Read more...FBI Uses Big Data to Fight Crime
According to Forbes, the FBI has a special unit that investigates crimes using big data combined with facial recognition software to find the perpetrators.
In the wake of a mass shooting or terror attacks investigators can be left with hours of CCTV footage, video from witnesses, or clips from social media.
Read more...Is Big Data Helping with the Covid-19 Fight?
According to Digital Market News, big data is helping lead the fight against Covid-19, but it also may be hindering it.
Big Data has emerged as a leading technological advancement that’s fueling our efforts to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. At the time of writing, the world has seen 2,585,197 cases of COVID-19, and many countries are still waiting to hit their peak. Here is how large data as a double-edged sword in the combat COVID-19.
Read more...Is Big Data Keeping Us Healthy?
Big data has a lot of information about our health, but is that helpful to us in meaningful ways, reports the London School of Economics.
With more and more information about us available electronically and online, the latest episode of the LSE iQ podcast asks, ‘Is big data good for our health?’
Read more...Using Big Data to Study Covid-19
According to the University of Virginia, big data can help understand how American’s individualism is harmful during Covid-19.
To understand America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, researchers started with data from more than 200 years ago – at the American frontier.
Read more...Mining the Social Media Data Trove
Social scientists are beginning to explore how the massive amount of data collected by social media platforms can be utilized in their research, reports Nature.
Elizaveta Sivak spent nearly a decade training as a sociologist. Then, in the middle of a research project, she realized that she needed to head back to school.
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