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.