
About this episode
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel and Chris have a timely conversation with Lucy Lu Wang of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence about COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). She relates how CORD-19 was created and organized, and how researchers around the world are currently using the data to answer important COVID-19 questions that will help the world through this ongoing crisis.
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Featuring:
- Lucy Lu Wang – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Lucy Lu Wang - Google Scholar
- Kaggle: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)
- CORD-19 Explorer
- Semantic Scholar | CORD-19
- Allen Institute for AI
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