Amazon Reveals COVID-19's Location With Data

Seattle-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced 'We are now open-sourcing a toolset for researchers and data scientists to better model and understand the progression of COVID-19 in a given community over time. This toolset is comprised of a disease progression simulator and several machine learning (ML) models to test the impact of various interventions.'

On October 30, 2020, AWS stated 'the ML models help bootstrap the system by estimating the disease progression and comparing the outcomes to historical data. Next, you can run the simulator with learned parameters to play out what-if scenarios for various interventions.'

To get started, AWS published a few sample ML simulations at the state and country levels in the covid19_simulator.ipynb notebook in https://github.com/aws-samples/covid19-simulation, which you can run on Amazon SageMaker or a local environment.