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How UW Medicine is Using Cloud Computing to Aid Seattle’s Covid Response

By: Louisa Gaylord

Over the past year, the University of Washington and UW Medicine have been at the heart of the city of Seattle’s Covid-19 response: researchers studying social distancing and how the virus spreads on our communities, volunteers collecting and distributing supplies, clinical vaccine trials, and a partnership with the city to process over 2 […]

April 5th, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: azure, cloud computing, Covid-19, HIPAA, Jimmy Phuong, Microsoft, Python, Rob Fatland, Robert Fabiano, Roland Lai, UW Medicine|

DSSG Team’s Model Will ID Online Coronavirus Disinformation

By: Emily Keller

While informative news articles about COVID-19 play a key role in fighting the pandemic, a range of erroneous blogs and articles with fake virus cures, political propaganda and conspiracy theories are also circulating online.

A new open source tool being developed as a project in the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer […]

July 29th, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: coronavirus, Covid-19, data science, Data Science for Social Good, disinformation, DSSG, DSSG2020, global disinformation index|