Data Science against COVID-19: The Valencian Experience (AI Ethics: Global Perspectives)

Data Science against COVID-19: The Valencian Experience by Nuria Oliver (AI Ethics: Global Perspectives)

In this module, we explore the ELLIS Alicante Foundation’s Data-Science for COVID-19 team’s work in the Valencian region of Spain. The team was founded in response to the pandemic in March 2020 to assist policymakers in making informed, evidence-based decisions. The team tackles four different work areas: modeling human mobility, building computational epidemiological models, predictive models on the prevalence of the disease, and operating one of the largest online citizen surveys related to COVID-19 in the world. This lecture explains the four work streams and shares lessons learned from their work at the intersection between data, AI, and the pandemic.

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AI Ethics: Global Perspectives is a free, online course designed to raise awareness and help institutions work toward a more responsible use of AI. It brings together leading experts in the field of AI from around the world to consider ethical ramifications of AI and rectify initiatives that might be harmful to particular people and groups in society.