Technology Tutorial: Thursday, July 22, 1-1:50pm EST
Data Science Approaches to Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, for the first time ever in history, data science has become a powerful weapon in combating infectious disease epidemic and arguably any future infectious disease epidemic. In this tutorial, we review the newly-born data science approaches to confronting COVID-19, compare the new approaches with the conventional epidemiological studies, discuss lessons we learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, and highlight the opportunities and challenges of data science approaches to confronting future infectious disease epidemics.
