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Facebook, CMU Tout Symptom Survey Data Collection

Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have released initial findings from their symptom survey data collection effort with Facebook users. Facebook hopes this data can help researchers and health authorities respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. Arc has launched a "Code Against COVID-19" effort connecting over 200 developer volunteers with over 20 projects designed to combat the coronavirus pandemic, such as apps tracking mask inventory and contact tracing. Coding Dojo has mobilized a network of over 4,500 alumni volunteers through its "Tech for America" program to offer web and software development services to help small businesses impacted by COVID-19.

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Facebook, CMU Tout Symptom Survey Data Collection

Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have released initial findings from their symptom survey data collection effort with Facebook users. Facebook hopes this data can help researchers and health authorities respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. Arc has launched a "Code Against COVID-19" effort connecting over 200 developer volunteers with over 20 projects designed to combat the coronavirus pandemic, such as apps tracking mask inventory and contact tracing. Coding Dojo has mobilized a network of over 4,500 alumni volunteers through its "Tech for America" program to offer web and software development services to help small businesses impacted by COVID-19.

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Facebook, CMU tout symptom survey data collection

Carnegie Mellon University, which is working with Facebook to collect and evaluate data
about Facebook users' COVID-19-related symptoms, has released its initial findings. And in
tandem with that release, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote about the
effort – and what the company hopes to do – in the Washington Post. 

"Getting accurate county-by-county data from across the United States is challenging, and


obtaining such focused data from across the whole world is even harder," he wrote. "But with
a community of billions of people globally, Facebook can uniquely help researchers and
health authorities get the information they need to respond to the outbreak and start planning
for the recovery."

Arc launches 'Code Against COVID-19' effort


Developers in the Codementor and Arc communities, which include more than  500,000
developers across the globe, are offering to help with projects designed to combat the
coronavirus pandemic. The goal of "Code against COVID-19" is to connect organizations in
need of development help for their projects directly with mentors and freelance developers,
Arc said. More than 200 developer volunteers have signed up for the effort and are working
on more than 20 different projects, Arc said.

"We believe software can help combat this global pandemic, and that's why we're launching
the Code Against COVID-19 initiative...," said Weiting Liu, founder and CEO of Arc. "From
tracking outbreaks and reducing the spread to scaling testing and supporting healthcare,
teams around the world are using software to flatten the curve. The eMask app (real-time
mask inventory in Taiwan) and TraceTogether (contact tracing in Singapore) are just two of
the many examples." The list of developers offering to help out on COVID-19 projects is
available online.

Coding Dojo's 'Tech for America' now has 190 volunteers


Tech education firm Coding Dojo has mobilized a network of more than 4,500 alumni to
offer web and software development services on a volunteer basis.

“No one knows when society will go back to normal, but there is comfort to be found in that
uncertainty,” said Coding Dojo CEO Richard Wang. “We’re all in this together, even if we’re
isolated from one another. We hope Tech for America helps small businesses survive
COVID-19 and believe programs like this will help us grow stronger as communities and as a
country.”

Businesses needing help are should send an email to techforamerica@codingdojo.com. Once


the request is submitted, organizations can be paired with volunteers based on locality,
technology proficiency needed for a given project, and other factors.

Verizon Media offers devs new tools for COVID-19 data queries
Verizon Media unveiled three new resources for developers and data teams to help them
better organize and understand publicly available COVID-19 data. The resources – a dataset,
API, and dashboard that help engineers analyze and navigate COVID-19 data – are powered
by the Yahoo Knowledge Graph.

Available under a Creative Commons license, the Yahoo Knowledge COVID-19 dataset
provides worldwide locations, cases, deaths and recoveries, broken down by country, state
and county level. The information is compiled from government websites and healthcare
organizations such as the WHO. The company also launched an API developers can use to
explore the dataset and build their own coronavirus charts, simulations, and applications.

Earlier, the company responded to the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-
19) challenge from Kaggle and created another instance of the data set for queries. The index
is designed to allow medical professionals and researches to have quick access to information
about the coronavirus. Details about how to contribute to that effort are available on github.

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