[Forum SIS] Datathon on Covid-19

[Domenico Marinucci]

Ricevo ed inoltro, domenico marinucci


Dear colleagues,

please find below the announcement of a Datathon (real-time forecasting 
competition) on Covid-19 just started.

Feel free to distribute to all interested parties.

Best regards,

Fabrizio Lillo
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Bologna
ITALY

Personal website: fabriziolillo.wordpress.com
University website: www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabrizio.lillo

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Announcement and call for participation at Real-time Epidemic Datathon 
https://www.epidemicdatathon.com

Real-time Epidemic Datathon is a collective open-source real-time 
forecasting challenge aimed at joining forces to push modeling limits 
further for real-time epidemic forecasting at large scale. Organized by 
ETH Zürich, UCLA, EU SoBigData++ project, NYU COURANT, and other partner 
organizations. The goal of this project is to bring together researchers 
and students from different disciplines (e.g., computer science, 
epidemiology, physics, statistics, applied math, ...) and advance 
real-time epidemic modeling frameworks. We provide a platform for 
scientific exchange and discussion. Participating teams can submit 
predictions of COVID-19 case evolutions in different countries and 
evaluate/compare their modeling approaches.

Who can join? Everyone can join and contribute in various ways: (i) 
register as a developer (individual or with a team) of a real-time 
epidemic forecasting model, (ii) register and monitor scientific 
developments (see our disclaimer section), or (iii) share the news about 
this event and help us to reach more contributors.
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