Knoema collaborates with alternative data community to provide COVID-19 resources
Knoema, a provider of an end-to-end data and knowledge management platform, is partnering with members of the alternative data community to provide the general public, media outlets, and policy makers with free data resources, visualizations, and dashboards related to COVID-19.
“We have decided to put some of our commercial interests aside at this time to focus on providing key decision makers with the data vectors they need to make the most informed, fact-based policy decisions and for helping the media keep the public well-informed,” said Charles Poliacof, CEO, Knoema
The founding coalition of alternative data providers includes: Advan (geolocation data), Apptopia (mobile app performance metrics), Cognovi Labs (AI-powered emotion analytics), Earnest Research (consumer analytics), M Science (consumer, industrials, tech, media and telecom), MedMine (medical devices and hospital supplies procurement data), Prosper Insights & Analytics (consumer confidence, spending and retail) and SimilarWeb (digital data).
Public data sources related to COVID-19 specifically include: The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and the COVID Tracking Project.
Available immediately on its website, Knoema has created a free dashboard with downloadable COVID-19-related data sources and charts to help track its global spread and impact on labor markets, consumer sentiment, travel, entertainment, and more.
Customizable Data Portals and Charts for Policy Makers For policy makers, Knoema is leveraging its technology and data assets to build free, custom COVID-19-related data portals, catalogs and charts to help support fact-based reporting and non-partisan policy making.
Each of the coalition’s alternative data providers have also agreed to make some of their data available for free to this group.
“We are really pleased to provide our geolocation data to this initiative. Understanding and tracking the spread of COVID-19 is key to slowing down its spread and to ensuring a swift recovery. Location data is an essential way to understand how and when people are moving and how behavior is changing, so that we can learn in real-time the best way to manage the pandemic within our communities,” said Yiannis Tsiounis, founder and CEO, Advan.
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