<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:34px;line-height:44.2px;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;color:rgb(51,51,51)">NYU Professor Creates COVID-19 Dashboard to Compare Country and State Data</h1><div class="entry-meta entry-meta-above" style="font-family:"Droid Sans";margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:13px;line-height:15.6px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">by <span class="entry-author gmail-vcard" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a class="gmail-author-link gmail-fn gmail-nickname gmail-url" href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/a9654e6b1556032541_1611776974509?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Flc3.shitrk.com%2Fr%2Fe%2FY0B3ls5OLKvTaBGYJ%3Fr%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.bespacific.com%2Fauthor%2Fsabrina%2F" title="View all posts by Sabrina I. Pacifici" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none"><span class="entry-author-name" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sabrina I. Pacifici</span></a></span> on Jan 26, 2021</div><div class="entry-content" style="font-family:"droid sans",Arial,Helvetica;margin:20px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:30.4px;vertical-align:baseline;width:992.656px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(31,31,31)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:30.4px;vertical-align:baseline">“A new online <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/a9654e6b1556032541_1611776974509?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Flc3.shitrk.com%2Fr%2Fe%2FnwbGJf0b3oQtOZ9xM%3Fr%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fcovid.jerschow.com%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener follow" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(0,0,255)">dashboard</a>, created by NYU Professor <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/a9654e6b1556032541_1611776974509?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Flc3.shitrk.com%2Fr%2Fe%2F60j9rsYnQRpCAGg4Q%3Fr%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fas.nyu.edu%2Fcontent%2Fnyu-as%2Fas%2Ffaculty%2Falexej-jerschow.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener follow" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Alexej Jerschow</a>, brings together COVID-19 data from U.S. states and countries around the world to compare cases, deaths, vaccines, and testing in a visual, user-friendly format.  The tool also integrates a range of policies governments have implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19—including school closings, stay-at-home orders, and mask mandates—in an effort to compare policy responses with COVID-19 outcomes.Jerschow, who is a professor of chemistry and typically works in the field of magnetic resonance imaging and battery research, was looking for a convenient way to compare COVID-19 data from different countries and states. While the data were available from different sources, there was not a single tool that allowed him to easily analyze how different geographic areas were faring and responding to the pandemic—so, he created one…The <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/a9654e6b1556032541_1611776974509?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Flc3.shitrk.com%2Fr%2Fe%2FnwbGJf0b3oQtOZ9xM%3Fr%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fcovid.jerschow.com%2F" target="_blank" rel="follow" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(0,0,255)">dashboard</a> combines data from a series of publicly available sources. Country-wide information is downloaded from <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/a9654e6b1556032541_1611776974509?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Flc3.shitrk.com%2Fr%2Fe%2F0br9NiGe3nrF3ma6M%3Fr%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fourworldindata.org%2Fcoronavirus" target="_blank" rel="noopener follow" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Our World in Data</a>, which sources its data from the <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/a9654e6b1556032541_1611776974509?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Flc3.shitrk.com%2Fr%2Fe%2F20a9LsP2l7OTXERVM%3Fr%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fcoronavirus.jhu.edu%2Fmap.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener follow" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering dashboard</a>. U.S. state and territory data are obtained from <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/a9654e6b1556032541_1611776974509?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Flc3.shitrk.com%2Fr%2Fe%2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