The COVID-19 Research Group was an interdisciplinary coalition hosted by the Data Science Institute in 2020 with partners from UW-Madison, local and state government, industry, and other academic institutions. This group arose out of the urgent need to develop models that could inform policy makers, as well as the general public, in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Resources curated by the group are archived below.
Local and Regional Data Visualizations
- COVID-19 Response Data Dashboard (UW-Madison)
- Dane County COVID-19 Dashboard (Public Health Madison-Dane County)
- Milwaukee County COVID-19 Dashboard
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services COVID-19 Dashboard
- Wisconsin Hospital Association COVID-19 Situational Awareness Update
- Visualizations of Movement in Wisconsin (GeoDS Lab @ UW-Madison)
- UW COSMOS COVID-19 Project: Literature Search
- COVID-19 Relative Mortality Risk Interactive Maps (Health Innovations Program)
Data Repositories and Code Resources
National and Global Data Visualizations and Reports
- COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- ESRI CovidPulse: United States novel coronavirus trend lines, since March (John Hopkins University and ESRI)
- HealthMap
- Google COVID Mobility Reports
- COVID-19 Community Mobility Country Comparison
- U.S. COVID Risk and Vaccine Tracker (COVID Act Now)
- An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19 (91-DIVOC)
- COVID-19 Global Cases (Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering)
- COVID-19 Surveillance Dashboard (University of Virginia)
- nCoV2019 Dashboard
Tools and Models
Publications Highlighting Team Members' Contributions
- (2021). Dimensions of uncertainty: a spatiotemporal review of five COVID-19 datasets. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2021.1975311.
- UW-Madison dorm outbreaks didn’t spill over into the community, new study finds. Spectrum News 1, 4 June 2021.
- Q&A: Malia Jones on in-person school decisions as vaccine arrives, pandemic continues. Cap Times, 29 December 2020.
- COVID-19 model quantifies impact of region-specific social distancing orders. University Communications, 26 October 2020.
- Everybody poops, some shed the virus that causes COVID-19. Wisconsin’s wastewater surveillance is looking for it. University Communications, 8 September 2020.
- ‘It’s just not surprising,’ Epidemiology expert expects most COVID deaths to have underlying causes. WKOW News, 31 August 2020.
- Q&A: UW’s Jonathan Temte on status of a coronavirus vaccine and how it will be distributed. Capital Times, 2 August 2020.
- Q&A: Malia Jones discusses returning to school as pandemic continues. Capital Times, 26 July 2020.
- US prisons are an experiment that lets COVID-19 run wild. Science Friday, 31 July 2020.
- A Coalition of Scientists Takes on COVID-19 — with Data. Grow Magazine, Summer 2020.
- Q&A: Ajay Sethi dispels COVID-19 conspiracies. Capital Times, 10 May 2020.
- Five people. One test. This is how you get there. New York Times, 7 May 2020.
- Dr. Malia Jones’s public outreach on COVID-19 is documented in the Applied Population Laboratory’s publications archive.
- Why climate change can lead to more pandemics. Wisconsin Public Radio, 22 April 2020.
- Researchers at UW-Madison lead data science coalition to aid with COVID-19. University Communications, 21 April 2020.
- UW-Madison engineer works with local health leaders to develop COVID-19 prediction models. University Communications, 17 April 2020.
- UW-Madison researchers tracking travel, social media to help contain virus. University Communications, 13 April 2020.
- Reason for hope against the novel coronavirus. Wisconsin State Journal, 3 April 2020.
Webinars and Presentations
- Badger Talks: Is Herd Immunity Attainable? 5 May 2021.
- Crossroads of Ideas: Getting Wisconsin Vaccinated (60 min). 24 March 2021.
- American Family Insurance Visiting Professor Series: Using Optimization in Planning Problems: A Covid Case (vaccination delivery) (55 min). 7 January 2021.
- Crossroads of Ideas: COVID-19 edition, part 2 (59 min). 20 April 2020.
- Nelson Institute Virtual 2020 Earth Day Conference: Transmission and transitions: How climate change is impacting human and planetary health (60 minutes). 20 April 2020.
- Crossroads of Ideas: COVID-19 edition, part 1 (59 min). 14 April 2020.
- UW-Madison MPH Program Webinar: COVID-19: Being an effective opinion leader (56 min). 31 March 2020.
Data Science Stories
- Starting around 15 years ago, Neil Ferguson developed pandemic models for influenza, and recently developed an agent-based continuous time model for COVID-19 that influenced action in the U.S. and the U.K.
- Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now, features data from the spread of this pandemic, and covers the handling of public health crises since the Spanish Influenza of 1918.
- Four Ways to Measure Coronavirus Outbreaks in U.S. Metro Areas
- Democracy Now! interviewed Avi Schiffman, the creator of the nCoV2019.live
- Caltech scientists examine COVID-19 by the numbers
- Social distancing “flattened the curve” in 1918, too
- Covid-19 in India: A data-centric summary
- FiveThirtyEight: A comic strip tour of the wild world of pandemic modeling