What Can Data and Analytics Tell Us About COVID-19?

Throughout history, data and analytics have had a profound impact on human health—including isolating the source of London’s cholera epidemic in the 1850s and promotion of new routine practices such as hand washing following the Crimean War. What Can Data and Analytics Tell Us About COVID-19? explores the power of analytics to shed light on the novel coronavirus that has threatened the health and economic welfare of people across the globe. This text familiarizes readers with different concepts related to data science, big data technology, and the various applications of machine learning algorithms for analyzing the available data on the global problem related to COVID-19.