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News, findings, and musings from the team

Oct 12
New and Improved COVID Symptom Survey Tracks Testing and Mask-Wearing

New and Improved COVID Symptom Survey Tracks Testing and Mask-Wearing

Beginning on September 8, 2020, we deployed a new version of our symptom survey. Facebook helps us recruit tens of thousands of respondents daily, and …

#symptom surveys #COVIDcast #R

By Alex Reinhart

Oct 7
Accessing Open COVID-19 Data via the COVIDcast Epidata API

Accessing Open COVID-19 Data via the COVIDcast Epidata API

One of our primary initiatives at the Delphi COVIDcast project has been to curate a diverse set of COVID-related data streams, and to make them freely …

#COVIDcast API #COVIDcast #R #Python

By Kathryn Mazaitis and Alex Reinhart

Sep 21
Can Symptoms Surveys Improve COVID-19 Forecasts?

Can Symptoms Surveys Improve COVID-19 Forecasts?

Building on our previous two posts (on our COVID-19 symptom surveys through Facebook and Google) this post offers a deeper dive into empirical …

#symptom surveys #forecasting #COVIDcast #R

By Ryan Tibshirani

Sep 18
COVID-19 Symptom Surveys through Google

COVID-19 Symptom Surveys through Google

Since April 2020, in addition to our massive daily survey advertised on Facebook, we’ve been running (even-more-massive) surveys through Google …

#symptom surveys #COVIDcast #R

By Ryan Tibshirani

Aug 26
COVID-19 Symptom Surveys through Facebook

COVID-19 Symptom Surveys through Facebook

Since April 2020, in collaboration with Facebook, partner universities, and public health officials, we’ve been conducting a massive daily …

#symptom surveys #COVIDcast #R

By Alex Reinhart and Ryan Tibshirani

Aug 10
Hello World!

Hello World!

Hello from the Delphi research group at Carnegie Mellon University! We’re a group of faculty, students, and staff, based primarily out of CMU …

#COVIDcast

By Roni Rosenfeld and Ryan Tibshirani

Jul 23
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By Frida Gomam