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COVID Project

  • Writer: Lawrence Chan
    Lawrence Chan
  • Dec 31, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 1, 2022



Data Sources:

  1. Country data (World Bank): https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators

  2. Policies and indexes (Oxford), confirmed cases: https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-tracker

  3. Survey Data (Facebook & UMD): https://covidmap.umd.edu/api.html

  4. Mobility Data (Apple): https://covid19.apple.com/mobility

  5. Mobility Data (Google): https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility


Project Objectives:

  1. To create a machine learning model to make predictions on the number of new confirmed cases for a country over a three-day period.

  2. To identify symptoms that may be related to the disease.

  3. To group similar countries through clustering and determine the most effective policies for each group.

  4. To provide suggestions for Hong Kong to prevent further spreading of the disease.


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