We (ie. Tobias Lunt) made a district-level COVID forecast for India: devdatalab.org/covid-forecast A lot of places are past the peak of the second wave. In a lot of places, case counts are still rising. We show Rt calculated from a model based on Bettencourt and Soman (2020). 🧵1/3

Congratulations to Aditi Roy Bhowmick DataKind Bengaluru Rukmini S for compiling the caseload data trends after covid19indiaorg decided to wind up their pioneering efforts Corona Virus India Update covid19bharat.org iCART | COVID-19 analytics for India Innovation Excellence Forum |www.thinkief.org |NPO IIT Hyderabad Gautam Menon G Kang Rijo M. John

🚨 I'm launching crunchcrunchhuman.com, a blog for thoughtful humans who like to crunch data. 🎁 To get the juices flowing I will donate $1 to DataKind for the first 250 confirmed subscribers who sign up before xmas. Just enter your email and hit "Subscribe". 👾 Retweet!

We collaborated with DataKind Bengaluru & Development Data Lab to display #COVID19 hospitalization numbers on the covid19bharat.org/analysis page. This is from a broader #covid19 database we've been collecting at ibm.biz/covid-data-ind…, and we'll be adding more detailed analyses on the page soon

DataKind Bengaluru partnered with Pratham Education Foundation where the team helped build a recommendation system for educational videos. It's been great working with them. Read more about the project over here medium.com/datakind-banga…

Hello! The call for volunteers for the Data Science project with Sub-K is open till the end of the month. Don't miss the opportunity to work with some interesting Data Science enthusiasts! If this is something you'd like, apply here: forms.gle/xrBGixjFyHe2hW…

The PMGSY Rural Connectivity datasets shared as shapefiles of block boundaries by @MoRD_GOI in Open Data will be very helpful to researchers & policy analysts. geosadak-pmgsy.nic.in/opendata/, published under Open Data License Innovation Excellence Forum |www.thinkief.org |NPO iCART | COVID-19 analytics for India DataKind Bengaluru OpenDataKerala CMIE

It's #GlobalVolunteerMonth! Let's celebrate the power of people who tackle society's greatest challenges & build stronger communities through #volunteerism. To our global community, thanks for your time and talent in using #datascience and #AI in the service of humanity.🧡 #DKx10

#ICYMI Lauren Woodman, our CEO, was featured in @JAXenterCOM's #womenintech series! Read about Lauren's background and career, some of #DataKind's project work, and the future of #WomenInSTEM. bit.ly/3FiMvUc

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DataKind Bengaluru is shutting operations for covid19bharat.org on 31st Jan, 2023. Read more about it here: medium.com/datakind-banga… #covdi19