IBM launches open source tool to help COVID-19 data analysis

IBM's Center for Open-Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT) is releasing a new toolkit that helps developers and data scientists answer questions about the pandemic. COVID notebooks is designed to help with tasks including obtaining authoritative data on the current status of the outbreak, cleaning up the most serious data-quality problems, collating the data into a format amenable to easy analysis with tools like Pandas and Scikit-Learn, and building an initial set of example reports and graphs. Taking care of these tasks frees developers and data scientists to focus on advanced analysis and modeling tasks instead of worrying about things… [Continue Reading]