Building a Platform for Data-Driven Pandemic Prediction from Data Modeling to Visualization – The CovidLP Project

Abstract

Here is the book for everyone in our field who has ever been asked about the meaning and value of statistics in the modern world. This is the book to give to your nonstatistician acquaintances the next time you get this question. For the rest of us, read this book and buckle up for an exciting adventure in the advance of datadriven knowledge and interdisciplinary collaboration. The book portrays, in admirable sweep and detail, the tireless efforts of statisticians and computer scientists under the auspices of the University of Brazil. Their goal is to create, maintain, and advance an online platform for COVID-19 pandemic prediction, one that can run on computers, notebooks, tablets, and mobile phones. Their aim is nothing less than a platform for predicting pandemic infections and deaths both in the short term—up to two weeks—and in the long term—until the end of the current wave of COVID-19 within a given state, region, and ultimately any country on the planet. The adventure plays out in 17 chapters: