Corona Virus Data-April 2020

This chart is based on data from the following source. Only data for India, Japan, and Singapore are extracted.

Data of interest from April 01 - April 29

https://covid.ourworldindata.org/data/owid-covid-data.xlsx

What are all the destinations that Jet Airways flies to?

Jet Airways is second largest airline in India with several international destinations

 

Historic meeting that may change the shape of things to come

The historic meeting and the follow up signing is nothing short of a miracle considering the events that preceded the meeting.

Ok, the meeting is over, the deal is done. What is the deal? It is heavily discussed in the media. It was surprising that at the time it was signed very little was known about the contents and the TV announcers were using words like 'something' was signed.

It appears the wording is still broad, and it is said to be 'Complete'. One must wait and see how it turns out. Our hopes are that it will result in lasting peace and scenes of Hiroshima, Chernobyl and Fukushima are just nightmares from which we woke up.

Here are some pictures taken on that day from a TV screen with a Microsoft Lumia phone. Watch the body language and the emotions on the faces.

 If you missed the signing, here it is.

The Signing

Big data to aid Big apple

Big data shakes hands with academics.

Big cities are sources of big data. Data comes in streams from all directions from diverse sources like traffic, crime, scams, events, emails, social media sites, weather sensors, sniffers of various kinds, parking lots and you name it. This data is not the kind of data that you can feed directly to a relational engine, it is diverse, a mélange and can only be termed informatics.

A new center, Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at New York University will be utilizing Big data to understand the dynamics of the city through various sensors and look through the data they bring in. Similar programs are already in place in University of Chicago and MIT. Outside USA similar efforts are in place like Spain and Singapore.

NYU will offer MS and PhD programs and takes an integrated look at physical, biological and informational data form the city's sensors. The data comes from not only installed sensors to measure temperature, pollution etc.  but also from body worn sensors like FitBit, and Up wristbands that volunteers wear and go round the city. Of course data from twitter feeds, blogs, video cameras etc. will be integrated as well.

Well there is no dearth for data from such a large resource as Big Apple.

The program has sponsors committed to Big Data with biggies like Microsoft, IBM, Xerox, City agencies, MTA and a couple of National Laboratories thrown in for good measure.

This post was written after reading this article, ‘Smart Cities will need big data’ in Physics today a journal published by the American Physical Society, September 2013, pp. 19, 20. For details get a copy of the journal from a library near you.

Related resources (Please do not skip):

http://cusp.nyu.edu/

Watch this video:

http://cusp.nyu.edu/the-promise-of-urban-informatics-video/

http://www.dw.de/smart-city-santander-takes-lead-in-europe/a-16945649

http://senseable.mit.edu/livesingapore/