SAS SAS and Goa Institute of Management’s Bitathon Leverages Data Analytics to Predict the Course of COVID-19 Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:52PM IST (7:22AM GMT)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India: SAS and Goa Institute of Management (GIM), recently hosted the second edition of “Bitathon 2021”, a platform for budding data scientists to solve problems that matter to humanity. The event witnessed an overwhelming response. Over 400 students from more than 25 institutes participated in it. This year the theme of Bitathon was to leverage data analytics to predict the course of COVID-19. The teams analyzed COVID-19 data of several countries along with the data from World Development Indicators over the past years. Based on the analysis and machine learning models deployed, a common theme that emerged across teams was that COVID-19 will not be eradicated any time soon, as more waves of the pandemic are expected across the world. As a result, the society must still follow the COVID-19 norms and guidelines as advised by governments and health agencies. Also, as the vaccination process has just started, its impact won’t be felt immediately.