week16 Socity and Computation

Due to the current situation in Russia and Ukraine, We discuss the relationship between data algorithms and social catastrophism.

The fire simulation scenario discussed in class demonstrates the role of the algorithm's re-simulation, which plays a large role in time replay.

Turning to the ongoing COIVD epidemic, algorithms also play a huge role. A dataset for COVID-19 has been created on Kaggle, Google's scientific data competition platform, and is updated daily. The data is reliable and includes the age of the patient, their location when they developed symptoms when they were exposed to public places when they sought medical attention and more. Almost 300 people have already cited this data in their own analyses. This data is also used to prevent the spread of new crowns. 

Meanwhile, researchers have used electronic health records from nearly 3,000 patients in Wuhan to build an algorithm that can predict patient mortality with over 90% accuracy.

The powerful computing system of computers is also very useful in social disasters