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Please join us for a final review of our IDEA Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects. During this half-hour our students presented their Summer 2020 work on COVIDMINDER, Data INCITE's COVID monitoring application (initiated in early 2020).

NOTE: Recording of these group presentations were split into two half-hour recordings.

Please join us for a final review of our IDEA Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects. During this half-hour our students presented their Summer 2020 work on the COVID WarRoom and COVID Back-to-School predictive modelling apps.

NOTE: Recording of these group presentations were split into two half-hour recordings.

In this exploratory study, we scrutinize a database of over 1 million tweets collected across the first five months of 2020 to draw conclusions about public attitudes towards the preventative measure of mask usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent months, a body of literature has emerged to suggest the robustness of trends in online activity as proxies for the epidemiological and sociological impact of COVID-19. We employ natural language processing, clustering and sentiment analysis techniques to organize tweets relating to mask-wearing into high-level themes, then relay narratives for individual clusters through automatic text summarization.

We find that topic clustering and visualization based on mask-related Twitter data offers revealing insights into societal perceptions of COVID-19 and techniques for its prevention. We observe that the volume and polarity of mask related tweets has greatly increased. Importantly, the analysis pipeline presented can be leveraged by the health community for the assessment of public response to health interventions in the ongoing global health crisis.

Please join us for a final review of our IDEA Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects. During this hour our students presented their Summer 2020 work on campus "de-densification" and WiFi monitoring, including building and campus flow, classroom occupancy, and "SafeStudent" applications.

NOTE: Recording of these group presentations were split into two half-hour recordings.

Please join us for a final review of our IDEA Health INCITE COVID Campus Reopening Summer Projects. During this hour our students presented their Summer 2020 work on campus "de-densification" and WiFi monitoring, including building and campus flow, classroom occupancy, and "SafeStudent" applications.

NOTE: Recording of these group presentations were split into two half-hour recordings.

John Erickson, of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is the lead engineer of COVIDMINDER--a graph and map-based visualization tool for COVID-19 statistics across the nation, by state and by county, with daily updates. COVIDMINDER is an outgrowth from MORTALITYMINDER which graphs and maps the demographics of mortality disparities. These projects are under the Health INCITE program at RPI with Dr. Kristen Bennett, and is funded by the United Health Foundation. Go online (now!) and check out the COVIDMINDER web application at "covidminder.idea.rpi.edu" and the related MORTALITYMINDER at "mortalityminder.idea.rpi.edu".