Googlielmo's blog

During these strange days of emergency we could observe, among many others from the academy and the industry, lots of initiatives by individuals or groups of Data Scientists using public available data sets to make predictions about the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic or other healthcare related applications to help in diagnosing the symptoms of the virus whether test kits for it wouldn't be available. Every little helps, it is also wonderful to see this high level of genuine interest on this matter and I am one of those that encourage people being curious and altruistic. But, as others have already started warning lately, any personal initiative, to be effective, needs to be evaluated by subject matter experts. In this post I am going to provide a concrete example about the importance of this kind of collaboration. At the end of 2019, I got a very bad flu which then ended up in an acute bronchitis, from which I recovered very slowly. During the rest of my life, after my ch...