Our submission to the Pandemic Response Hackathon (CoronaRank) is inspired by Google’s PageRank and utilizes geolocation data in the Apache Parquet format from Veraset for effective exposure risk assessment using R and Markov Chain modeling.

This is the first of two blog posts about our recent participation in the Pandemic Response Hackathon. Our project (CoronaRank) was one of only 5 projects out of 230 submissions chosen to present at the closing ceremony.

As part of our AI4G Initiative and with the support of a Google grant, Appsilon Data Science will be contributing to to the work of biodiversity conservationists at the National Parks Agency in Gabon in collaboration with the University of Stirling.