COVID-19 Modeling and Decision Trees for San Diego Schools
About the Project
A key concern amid the COVID-19 pandemic is the safe return of children, teachers, staff to schools.
GeoACT (Geospatial Agent-based Model for COVID-19 Transmission) simulates a range of scenario data to help schools evaluate and improve their reopening plans to prevent super-spreader events and outbreaks.
Features
Models
Bus Model
Along with integrating our model into the school ecosystem, GeoACT extends its capability to activities beyond school-hours. By accounting for transmission, ventilation in confined spaces and using real-time case data on specific routes, GeoACT successfully simulates the spread of COVID-19 aboard school buses.
Learn MoreSchool Model
Our school model takes user-input school-specific data such as floor-plans, class schedules, furniture layouts, as well as planned pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions to estimate the extent of COVID-19 transmission in specific schools. The GeoACT model then blends this with the best available science governing COVID-19 transmission dynamics to provide users an estimate of the extent of COVID-19 transmission as well as the spatial distributions of case loads in specific schools.
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News and Events
Get to know all things GeoACT
Model Overview at Halicioğlu Data Science Institute
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How to use GeoACT for your School?
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A Deeper Dive into the Science
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Results
Example ResultsAwards and Presentations
- HPC Wire 2022 Editors' Choice Award: Best HPC Response To Societal Plights
- UC GIS Week 2022: GIS + Health
- Data Science Alliance Launch Event: An Evening With Mr. Bill Nye
GeoACT in the Press
- UCSD This Week: UC San Diego Data Science Undergrads Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
- HPC Wire: SDSC Supercomputers Helped Enable Safer School Reopenings
- XSEDE Science Success Story: San Diego Supercomputer Center Researchers Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
- San Diego County Office of Education: E-DECISION TREE HELPS SCHOOLS WITH COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
- UC IT Blog: UC San Diego Data Science Undergrads Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
- West Big Data Innovation Hub: West Hub Affiliate Researcher Leads Efforts to Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
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