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As of March 31, more than 160,000 people had been diagnosed in the United States, with nearly 3,200 deaths and nearly 6,000 recoveries. Globally, more than 800,000 people have been diagnosed. The dashboard broke new ground last week when it went from reporting state data to now being accurate to city and county data.
The app averages more than a billion hits a day, according to a march presentation by Lauren Gardner, Ph.D., an associate professor at the center for systems science and engineering (CSSE) in the department of civil engineering at Hopkins, who created and directs the app. It is reported that the highest daily traffic more than 2 billion!
Behind this complex system, in addition to schools and professors, a group of talented and hard-working Hopkins students from China, [hopehuafeng], interviewed the research team and Shared their stories.
The original intention is only dedicated to scientific research, and the current situation makes them shoulder different responsibilities
At the start of the project, Gardner’s doctoral student, ensheng dong, wanted to collect data to “understand the disease from birth to death. After discussions with their supervisors, they began statistical and mapping work, and later invited another of Gardner’s doctoral students, hongru du, to work on the epidemic map project.
As the epidemic progressed, they decided to release the data so that the public could understand the epidemic more accurately and in real time, and researchers could obtain the data in a timely and accurate manner. Data collection, collation, release, every step has been completed seriously, every link has been carefully considered. The work, published in the lancet on February 19th, is “shorter than writing”.
“A lot of people don’t think it’s very complicated to collect data and put it on a map,” said ensheng. Where to get the data is accurate and timely, the best name for each region, and how to make sure our servers are capable of up to $2 billion a day, all of which require constant discussion and coordination.”
The lancet paper compared data reports from the Johns Hopkins center for systems science and engineering (CSSE), the world health organization (WHO), and the Chinese center for disease control and prevention (Chinese CDC).
The case data on the CSSE dashboard were consistent with the CDC and WHO status reports, respectively.
In addition, the dashboard was particularly effective in capturing the time of the first reported covid-19 cases in a new country or region.
With the exception of Australia, Hong Kong and Italy, Johns Hopkins university’s CSSE reported new infections in countries before the world health organization, and in Hong Kong and Italy within hours of the corresponding who situation report.
#With great power comes great responsibility#
More and more difficult tasks make the team stronger and stronger. This upgrade to show the city – and county-level data further increased their workload. Rewriting scripts and debugging code over and over again is their stubbornness to not give in to a lot of data.
“The happiest time is when the code stops reporting errors!” “Hong ru joked.
The data management team volunteers recruited FLYER, which attracted active participation from students from the schools of engineering, public health and business
(design: SHERRYN)
The workload is growing, and in order to ensure high quality data reporting, there is strong support at the most critical time: the Hopkins club’s data management team, Verification and Validation of CSSE. They included volunteers from the lilac garden class and students from other Hopkins schools.
“Professor Hopkins club is alumni and innovative undertaking led jointly promote entrepreneurial innovation platform, innovation center in the direction of big data and AI has profound technology accumulation and team reserve”, the data project director, said Dr Chen Fenghao “use professional knowledge and advanced technology to save lives is uphold the tradition of Hopkins in one hundred, with the situation, we will continue to develop advanced tools in response to the outbreak.”
Dr. Jian ni, professor of the Carey school of business, and Dr. Mariam Jeschke, Academic Program Coordinator, have provided strong support for the establishment of a multi-faculty team.
Dr. Jian ni, professor, Johns Hopkins Carey school of business
(Source: Carey/JHU)
With the team’s efforts, the Johns Hopkins university “global novel coronavirus outbreak dashboard,” the most authoritative outbreak data in the United States that the world is watching, broke new records last week: it went from reporting state-level data to now reporting city-level data!
In other words, people will be able to see more clearly how far away they are from the epicenter of the outbreak, understand how the disease is spreading and contained, and take precautions accordingly. The improvements also allow governments and researchers to see more clearly the spread of the disease, so that health resources can be allocated and policies issued.
Asked about the motivation behind the difficulty and task of creating such an unprecedented map of the epidemic, they said:
“My mentor, professor Gardner at Hopkins, was my role model and gave me a lot of strength. She often stays with us until two or three in the morning.”
Dong ensheng (JHU/Whiting engineering institute/CSSE)
“Hopefully, this outbreak will lead people to abandon prejudice and arrogance, to stop criticizing governance practices that are not recognized by other countries, to respect the advice of experts, to respect life and medicine, and to be honest with the public even in times of crisis. Besides viruses, there are many disasters in the world that have no politics or borders… I hope spring will come soon.”
Data validation team, gao ge (JHU/Carey school of business)
“Because Hopkins is number one, the school of public health and the school of medicine are the best, we have to be number one on the epidemic map, not just number one, but number one, speed and quality.”
Data validation group, zhang xuming (JHU/Carey business school)
“Because it’s fun to work with people from different departments at Hopkins, people think differently. It’s hard, it’s going to be late, but people are motivated.”
Data validation group, Sherryn (JHU/Bloomburg school of public health)
Johns Hopkins at the forefront of medicine (source: JHMI/WEB)
Biggest wish? #
Hopefully, one day, people will stop looking at our maps
Because the epidemic is over
Today, the Hopkins map is highly publicized and praised, providing an important basis for governments and individuals to make decisions that honor Hopkins’ mission to protect Health, Saving Lives — Millions at a Time.
At the same time, a large number of research teams have used the data to publish articles and make contributions to the academic community, worthy of the history of Hopkins university as the first research university in the United States and the first in the history of higher education in the United States.
Instead of wallowing in such glory, however, team members dedicated to the epidemic map project thought more. “While it’s proud that our map is being looked at by the world, I want the epidemic to go away so that people don’t look at the map, they look at life. Until then, the map will be used to prevent the next outbreak.” Yu Ming exclaimed.
The epidemic map began with and will continue to end with scientific research
The words were empty and big, but the Hopkins team members were very honest: “I hope our efforts can make a contribution to the fight against the epidemic.”
Finally, let’s hear what the team’s kids have to say to the world.
Yang translation
“Hopefully the outbreak information system will make more people in different countries on the planet aware of the situation and raise awareness. It is also hoped that this outbreak will bring people of all countries closer together. Cooperation is the key to success, and the openness and sharing of information is especially important for international cooperation. “In the face of the epidemic, countries need to put aside the political overreach and step up cooperation and communication and reduce responsibility, because time waits for no man and life is priceless.”
Zhang Huaizhong
“The JHU people from different colleges are working together to do a great job on the epidemic information system and I’m very lucky to be part of it and I hope everyone can keep social distance, stay at home, stay healthy so that we can finish what we are doing now.”
NiWenYing
“It is a great honor to be part of this project organized by JHU. I think this program is really meaningful to help people from all walks of life to track the development of the epidemic faster and better. I also want to do my bit to fight the epidemic. I hope my work will be over soon and everyone will be healthy.”
Zhu Yifan
“But please trump look at the data and be more careful.”
Li dong
“Do our best to provide accurate and diverse data on outbreaks”
LAN figure
“If you don’t believe in history, look at the world with your own eyes.”
Wang Yingqi
“Remind yourself to type more than just Numbers every day.”
LuoLi,
“We’ve seen history go from ignorance and anxiety and fear to a concerted effort to fight the epidemic. Hopefully we won’t need to update the data soon. (try not to go out if you can)”
Ding hui,
“This outbreak is like a magnifying glass, magnifying all kinds of social and political problems, but also amplifying the care and mutual support between people regardless of their positions.”
参考资料
- 霍普金斯俱乐部COVID-19网站
- 霍普金斯专家对国会提供新冠疫情的最新形势报告 (HOPKINS EXPERTS PRESENT LATEST CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION ON CAPITOL HILL)
- 约翰霍普金斯系统科学与工程中心(JHU CSSE)
- 约翰霍普金斯系统疫情资源网站
- 约翰霍普金斯系统疫情地图
- 一个交互式的用以实时监控COVID-19的数据仪表盘
Dong E, Du H, Gardner. An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Feb 19. pii: S1473-3099(20)30120-1. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30120-1.