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Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. For the last several weeks, Oracle has been actively engaged in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. Our primary goal has been to develop and deploy a series of cloud applications that will gather the data necessary to enable health professionals to answer one critical question: What drugs are effective in treating or preventing the COVID-19 virus? Clinical Trials System The first systems we implemented in pursuit of this goal were clinical trials. Oracle has long been one of the world’s leading suppliers of clinical trial systems. Over the years, many drugs including the remarkable cancer ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash To help the global education community during a period of increased remote learning, AWS Educate is launching an “Educator Mobilization” initiative to provide resources that support educators as they migrate to virtual instruction. Launching the week of April 6th, resources will include webinars hosted by educators who are members of AWS Educate with expertise teaching in online classrooms, as well as virtual office hours. As K12 school systems and higher education institutions across the world transition in-person classrooms to virtual environments, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Dr. Andrew Jones. Cloud-based technology is supporting healthcare organisations and governments in response to the evolving COVID-19 situation. Healthcare providers and professionals, governments, and patients around the world face are facing an unprecedented challenge. Healthcare organizations and workers are on the frontline serving those affected by the illness and collaborating to find a cure. Healthcare organisations are adapting to this new way of working—from remote working to creating new diagnosis and care models to enhancing research. Some healthcare professionals are remotely reviewing, triaging, and addressing incoming requests from citizens and patients and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sebastian Heinz. [This article was first published on r-bloggers | STATWORX, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Recently, some colleagues and I attended the 2-day COVID-19 hackathon #wirvsvirus, organized by the German government. Thereby, we’ve developed a great application for simulating COVID-19 curves based on estimations of governmental measure effectiveness (FlatCurver). As there are many COVID-related dashboards and visualizations out there, I thought that gathering the underlying data ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hendrik Thiel. [This article was first published on R-posts.com, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Dear R-community, This is a rather unusual post for an R-blog, but unusual times may require that. I am not involved into organizing this effort except for volunteering in the same way I want you to do. So, if you aren’t aware of this initiative yet, please likewise consider subscribing to Crowdfight Covid-19. Motivation: Most ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Affiliation Harrison – Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis, Washington DC Cara – Department of the Air Force (Studies, Analyses, and Assessments – AF/A9), Washington DC Disclaimer The views expressed in this article represent the personal views of the author and are not necessarily the views of the Department of Defense (DoD) ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Edgar Haren. Organizations across the globe are using advanced analytics and data science to predict and make decisions. They are finding ways to use their vast and diverse data stores to predict the best place to put their next retail store, what products to recommend to customers, how many employees they need for peak hours of operation, and how long a piece of machinery has until it needs maintenance. Public sector organizations in government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare are looking to use data to advance their missions too.Expanding and improving government response ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . As the world grapples with COVID-19, it’s critical that public agencies working to stop the spread of the virus are equipped to give their communities timely and accurate information. Government agencies and non-profits are handling large amounts of data that are changing rapidly, and many of them are turning to Power BI to share data about COVID-19 with communities in easy-to-understand maps and dashboards. We’re providing a The Victorian Many organizations around the world use Power BI to share information with the general public. Here are To add your own ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Rachel Van Dinter. AWS EdStart Members are on a mission to bridge the personalized learning gap between students and educational institutions through artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platforms built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). These organizations are enabling students to follow their own learning pathways across writing, math, and reading, at their own pace, anytime, and anywhere. Learn about three AWS EdStart Members and how they adapt to student learning and virtually assist self-study. Using social and gamification elements to make learning fun and engaging Joni.AI is an AI-powered adaptive math learning and assessment ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: An Accounting and Data Science Nerd's Corner. I have decided that the world needs another Covid-19 related R package. Not sure whether you agree, but the new package facilitates the direct download of various Covid-19 related data (including data on governmental measures) directly from authoritative sources. It also provides a flexible function and accompanying shiny app to visualize the spreading of the virus. Play around with the shiny app here if you like or hang around to learn more about the package. Why yet another package on Covid-19? There are at least two R packages that provide ... Read More