The past few years have witnessed the rise of big data, which has upended established ways of doing business while promising to usher in a new era of digitally-defined analytics. While relatively few people were thinking about the role of big data when it comes to fighting health crises just a few years ago, the continued spread of COVID-19 has led many to ask how big data initiatives can help in a pandemic. It’s becoming increasingly clear that our ability to generate, record, and analyze data is an essential part of our pandemic response strategy.From Israel to China, nation-states are embracing big data surveillance like never before to resist the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact tracing is importantWhen it comes to responding to a pandemic like COVID-19, contact tracing is of immense importance. Contact tracing involves tracking down the individuals that you came into contact with after being exposed to a contagion like COVID-19; if we’re incapable of determining who the infected were in contact with once they became contagious, we’re incapable of preventing the spread of the infection. While contact tracing has been around for many years, it’s becoming better than ever before with a little help from big data.Smartphone apps ...
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