The last year hasn’t been a time with a lot to hold onto. We’ve had a lot of “uncertainty,” as we lived through “unprecedented” events over and over again.
But through it all, data has always been there. In a lot of ways, data can track the months of the pandemic as they passed. We watched COVID curves and PPE availability. Then we analyzed economic recovery shapes and tracked new business openings. Then, when it was time to reopen, we once again watched cases carefully and tracked cases in schools. And as the vaccines arrived, dashboards got a new feature to track inoculation rates.
When the data is mentioned, the name Johns Hopkins University usually isn’t far behind, right back to the original global COVID dashboard. So one event coming up this weekend from the well-attended Data Works MD meetup is particularly interesting. For one, there’s the title: “The Role of Data During Apocalyptic Times.”
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