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xSAT Outbreak Tracking + Early-Detection Platform Launched

IDSC has developed a first-of-its-kind early-detection platform xsat.idsc.miami.edu for COVID-19 that will enable local residents to self-report symptoms and researchers and decision makers to visualize data and identify hot spots. By tracking social media posts, analyzing public health data, and creating an interactive online dashboard, University of Miami researchers, and others, will have the ability to identify new clusters of COVID-19 cases in real time, rather than days or weeks after an outbreak. Read more “xSAT Outbreak Tracking + Early-Detection Platform Launched” →

Data Ethics During COVID-19

The University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, and the Ethics Programs are collaborating to host a Zoom discussion on Data Ethics during COVID-19. From public health surveillance to contact tracing and the never-ending challenge of balancing the duties of science and privacy, the Covid-19 pandemic is a test-case of our ability to manage extraordinary challenges. The ethical decisions surrounding data collection, sharing, and use, shapes and will help us meet these challenges. Read more “Data Ethics During COVID-19” →

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Data Ethics During COVID-19, Thursday 7/23/2020

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Why the Flatten-the-Curve Chart Worked

IDSC Visualization Director Alberto Cairo speaks on the effective simplicity of the COVID-19 Flatten-the-Curve chart for Mother Jones magazine. We are all familiar with the “flatten the curve” chart, but what made it so effective?
Read more “Why the Flatten-the-Curve Chart Worked” →

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Webinar Tuesday 6/9 on COVID-19 Tracking and Reporting

Please join us for a virtual presentation and Q&A with Dr. Nicholas Tsinoremas and Mr. Christopher Mader, who are developing an interactive geographic visualization alert system using Machine Learning algorithms to provide early warning for COVID-19 surveillance.

Register now for this CTSI #translationaltuesday Zoom webinar on June 9, at 4:00 PM.

Publications

COVID-19: Overcoming the Challenges Faced by Individuals with Autism…

While the infection rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rises exponentially around the globe, individuals with autism spectrum disorder are being identified as part of a group at higher risk for complications from COVID-19.1 Read more “COVID-19: Overcoming the Challenges Faced by Individuals with Autism and their Families” →

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Data Visualizations Help us Understand the Impact of COVID-19

“Shocking statistics are prevalent these days, so you need to pay close attention to what a graphic is attempting to convey.” This is the advice of Alberto Cairo, the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication and a veteran expert on news information graphics and how data journalism is helping the world to understand the impact of the coronavirus.

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, data visualizations can help us better understand the impacts of this public health and economic crisis. From interactive maps about the virus’s global dispersion to iconography about national unemployment rates, visualization specialists are finding novel ways to display an influx of ever-changing data. Read more “Data Visualizations Help us Understand the Impact of COVID-19” →

Grants

Fast-Tracked Early Warning COVID-19 Research Project

Twenty-four University of Miami research teams, including a team from IDSC, have received rapid-response grants to undertake innovative projects that will provide critical information about the novel coronavirus. Imagine developing an oral rinse test to detect COVID-19 earlier, creating a behavior therapy program for parents so that they do not pass on the stress they are feeling to their children during the pandemic, or gauging the effects of COVID-19 on pregnant women and trying to determine the impacts on their new babies. Read more “Fast-Tracked Early Warning COVID-19 Research Project” →

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COVID-19 Silver Lining: Lower Emissions

IDSC Deputy Director and Earth Systems Scientist Dr. Ben Kirtman recently spoke with WLRN radio regarding reduced carbon emissions. With workers and businesses around the planet suddenly shut down, scientists are getting an unexpected glimpse at a world with less carbon. NASA has already detected a drop in smog over central China, where the COVID-19 coronavirus first appeared. In the U.S., satellite imagery earlier this month also detected less of the nitrous oxide-rich smog in places like car-addicted Los Angeles. Nitrous oxide makes up about 6 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gases. Read more “COVID-19 Silver Lining: Lower Emissions” →

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Viz Experts Pick the Best Virus Charts

IDSC Visualization, Data Communication, and Information Design Director Alberto Cairo was one of six Visualization Experts featured in this Fast Company piece on the “graphics that do the best job of telling an important story about coronavirus.” Read more “Viz Experts Pick the Best Virus Charts” →

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