Team 4_Global Virus Tracker

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  Global Virus Tracker

Inspiration

Since the COVID-19 is a global pandemic, the integration of the real time updates about the global COVID-19 is highly demanded. With the help of Artificial Intelligent (AI)and big data techniques, the identification of potential patient will also save a lot of resources and time of both people and hospitals.

What it does

The platform provides data visualization with almost real-time updated surveillance data and introduces the AI technology to estimate the models for the pandemic trend prediction, symptom self-evaluation and risk estimation map. The users of our system could self-evaluate their symptoms if they are not familiar with the COVID-19, and estimate the risk of themself and the places they are living, going, or went.

Challenges I ran into

The massive data from different sources are very challenging to integrate and clean up for demonstration; the AI-based risk evaluation models need to fit the updated information to provide the most accurate and reliable services.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We implemented a reliable API in the backend to provide the data and model for frontend services, and the backend API could support not only the web services but also the Android/iOS mobile App service as needed.

What I learned

As a platform, it could be comprehensive, but as a service for a system, each of the component needs to be very focus to meet the demand of the targeted users.

What's next for Global Virus Tracker

A global surveillance platform for virus/pandemic tracking and contagion fighting.