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24 April 2020

Trace! Trace!

Outbreaks and pandemics often focus attention on the conditions that helped them to spread. In the past, this has put sanitary conditions – overcrowding, water supply – under the spotlight, and that is happening again in the case of washing hands, wild animal markets and wearing masks. But in countries with well-developed public health systems, might subsequent scrutiny fall on disease surveillance? Could better use of data have helped us to track, and stop, the spread of coronavirus, especially since much of the technology now exists?... Will we look back on an absence of contact tracking or health apps which record population health in the same way we now regard cramped tenements and poor sewage systems – or will the mere suggestion that this might be the retrospective view lead to changes that are far too sweeping?

A lot has happened when since Monday, when I wrote that for the Institute for Government website. The Ada Lovelace Institute had just published an extremely helpful guide to contact tracing, and various pilots are now underway. Much, much more on the various other studies and reports below.

In other coronavirus news, I've started a timeline of significant data-related moments in the UK government's handling of the crisis on Google Sheets, which will hopefully help us all understand how things have unfolded. It's quite London-centric and missing a lot at the moment; some people have already added useful links (thank you!), so please do join in and add some things yourself.

A couple of Data Bites-related items:

Invitations will be going live shortly for our next event at 6pm on Wednesday, 6 May. Some excellent presenters lined up already, so put it in your diary

Remember Kirsten's presentation at the last Data Bites, about what the Social Investment Business are trying to do with social economy data during the coronavirus crisis? Here's how they've been getting on since.

And it was National Tea Day this week. Here's George Orwell on how to make the perfect cup of tea. Let the violent disputes ensue.

Have a good weekend

Gavin

Today's links:

Tips and tech, etc

Coronavirus: living alone and working from home in lockdown (Defra Digital)

The reason Zoom calls drain your energy (BBC, via Tim)

All the things that Zoom needs to fix right now (Wired)

13 ways of looking at a Zoom background (Vox)

Easy Tips for Improving your On-Camera Communication (West Wing Writers)

This is our plan for covering the coronavirus crisis (Wired)

Connection Coalition

Graphic content

Viral content: cases

Coronavirus tracked: the latest figures as the pandemic spreads (FT - more here)

UK coronavirus deaths more than double official figure, according to FT study (FT)

How coronavirus spreads through a population and how we can beat it (The Guardian)

Hidden Outbreaks Spread Through U.S. Cities Far Earlier Than Americans Knew, Estimates Say* (New York Times)

The South is likely to have America’s highest death rate from covid-19* (The Economist)

Ethnic minorities dying of Covid-19 at higher rate, analysis shows (The Guardian)

How coronavirus hitched a ride through China (Reuters)

36,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis* (New York Times)

Coronavirus: Am I helping to protect the NHS? (BBC News)

Ventilators: a bridge between life and death? (Reuters)

What 5 Coronavirus Models Say the Next Month Will Look Like* (The Upshot)

Five Ways to Follow the Coronavirus Outbreak for Any Metro Area in the U.S.* (The Upshot)

Covid-19 in NZ - Tuesday’s numbers charted (Newsroom)

Viral content: consequences

How coronavirus brought aerospace down to earth* (FT)

A sustainable exit strategy: Managing uncertainty, minimising harm (Institute for Global Change, via Alex)

Britain’s open borders make it a global outlier in coronavirus fight* (FT)

Coronavirus: This is how much traffic congestion has dropped in your city during lockdown (Sky News)

Launching an economic lifeboat: The impact of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (Resolution Foundation)

Corona shock* (Tortoise)

COVID-19 and Communities: Sales Data Deep Dive (Social Economy Data Lab)

Are covid-19 lockdowns distorting inflation?* (The Economist)

Domestic violence has increased during coronavirus lockdowns* (The Economist)

Navigating the ‘infodemic’: how people in six countries access and rate news and information about coronavirus (Reuters Institute)

CORONAVIRUS GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TRACKER (Blavatnik School of Government, via Alex)

COVID and forced experiments (Benedict Evans)

The public say coronavirus is the most important issue facing Britain since unemployment in the 1980s (Ipsos MORI)

We need to figure out how we will reopen the economy. But not like this.* (FT)

COVID-19 lockdown: public want gradual exit that prioritises economy (YouGov)

How will the 'Zoom Parliament' actually work? (Melissa and Alice for IfG)

Last year, we searched Google for how to tie a tie. Now we’re using it to find toilet paper.* (Washington Post)

Viral content: #dataviz

One Chart Isn’t Going To Tell You When The Pandemic Peaked (FiveThirtyEight)

How to read coronavirus graphs* (The Spectator)

This exercise plan for your lock-down work-out is inspired by Venn (Junk Charts)

Anti-viral content: environment

UK net zero target (Marcus for IfG)

The Best Way to Slow Global Warming? You Decide in This Climate Simulator* (Bloomberg)

Carbon in Context (Duncan Geere, via quantum of sollazzo)

The Logpile Chart (Duncan Geere)

Anti-viral content: everything else

A new n-grams viewer for EU Law (Giuseppe)

Ministerial directions (Oliver for IfG)

A possible DfID/FCO merger? (me/Tim for IfG)

2020 WORLD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX (Reporters Without Borders)

Industry Voices: Helen Atkinson | Visual Data Journalist | The Economist (PPA, via Alex)

The Beauty of Maps (BBC FOUR)

Meta data

Viral content: tracing papers

Tech on the frontline - how NHSX & partners are delivering at pace (NHSX)

Government use of personal data in the coronavirus response requires public debate and support (me for IfG)

COVID-19 Rapid Evidence Review: Exit through the App Store? (Ada Lovelace Institute)

Starting with SOAP: rapid deployment of contact tracing technologies in a pandemic (Australian National University)

SOAP and hand washing (via Ellen Broad)

The Challenge of Proximity Apps For COVID-19 Contact Tracing (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Mind the app - considerations on the ethical risks of COVID-19 apps (Luciano Floridi)

A thread of useful resources on #privacy and the proposals for a #Covid19 #ContactTracingApp (Ellen Judson)

The ethics of instantaneous contract tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic (Wellcome Centre for Ethics and the Humanities and Ethox Centre; Big Data Institute, University of Oxford; Oxford University NHS Trust; Wellcome Centre for Human Genomics, via Alex)

Coronavirus: NHS contact-tracing app is tested at RAF base (BBC News)

Thousands of households to take part in DHSC and ONS coronavirus tracking study (Civil Service World)

Coronavirus: An EU approach for efficient contact tracing apps to support gradual lifting of confinement measures (European Commission)

How the coronavirus pandemic has put the UK healthtech sector centre stage (Tech Nation)

A Price Worth Paying: Tech, Privacy and the Fight Against Covid-19 (Institute for Global Change)

Ministers plan to give more UK public bodies power to hack phones (The Guardian)

Viral content: without a trace

Improbable’s simulation tech could help us build better pandemic models (Wired)

How an electronic health record became a real-world research resource: comparison between London’s Whole Systems Integrated Care database and the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making)

COVID-19: what happens next? (Social Investment Business)

Covid-19 index of articles (Significance)

RSS launches new Covid-19 Task Force (RSS)

India’s digital response to COVID-19 risks inefficacy, exclusion and discrimination (The Caravan)

Inside the troubled, glitchy birth of parliament’s online voting app (Wired)

Digital Policy for a Lockdown: How Tech Can Help Us Adapt to a Radically Altered World (Institute for Global Change)

Need help to share data to tackle the coronavirus crisis? Get in touch (ODI)

How can charities use data to help communities during Covid-19? (Charity Comms)

How open contracting approaches help Ukraine to tackle COVID-19 (Open Contracting Partnership)

Open Response, Open Recovery (Open Government Partnership)

Public opinion and trust in government during a public health crisis: Transparency and open communication will be important in overcoming coronavirus (Policy Institute at King's)

Viral content: counting the cost

COVID-19 surveillance and registered deaths data review (UK Statistics Authority)

Why is Belgium’s death toll so high? (Politico)

Coronavirus statistics: what can we trust and what should we ignore? (The Observer)

Coronavirus: Why are international comparisons difficult? (BBC News)

Counting rare things is hard (Stats Chat)

More BAME people are dying from coronavirus. We have to know why (Sadiq Khan for The Guardian)

Viral misinformation

How a 5G coronavirus conspiracy spread across Europe (FT)

There is no evidence supporting claims about a government-run network of fake NHS Twitter accounts (Full Fact)

Anti-viral content

People person: an interview with Clare Moriarty as she leaves the civil service (Civil Service World)

CIO interview: Theo Blackwell, CDO for London (Computer Weekly)

Open Data Policy Lab

YouTube at 15: how the world’s biggest broadcaster broke the media* (New Statesman)

Why is change discovery important for open data? (Leigh Dodds)

What the RHI Inquiry tells us about the ‘chilling effect’ of freedom of information laws (Ben Worthy)

Ministers plan to give more UK public bodies power to hack phones (The Guardian)

Book referencing and sourcing (Thomas Rid)

Opportunities

JOB: Head of Public Policy (ODI)

JOBS (Global Open Data Barometer)

JOB: Content Designer (ONS)

JOB: Operations Manager (Part-Time) (Digital Action)

EVENT: ODI Fridays: About data about us – talking to people about data rights (ODI)

EVENT: Corruption and coronavirus: transparency’s role in ensuring an effective response and recovery (Open Ownership)

And finally...

Viral content

Searches for “logarithmic scale”... (Andrew van Dam)

Excellent and unprecedented work here (The Times via Gary Lineker, via Tim)

The Singapore government's Covid-19-busting superhero team... (via Jeni)

An artist visualized what your smartphone can 'see' using Bluetooth — and it shows one of the biggest challenges faced by coronavirus tracking technology (Business Insider)

5G masts and the Japanese cholera epidemic of 1890 (Mainichi Shimbun via James)

Anti-viral content

US Presidents ranked across 20 dimensions by 157 Presidential scholars (via Randy Olson)

the comprehensive chart of men you will briefly date in your 20s (@ellegist)

everyone had a lot of thoughts on this one, huh (@ellegist)

Chart flop: VisitBritain sorry for literary map ignoring Wales and Scotland (The Guardian)

The Faces of Bureaucracy (enjoy an insight into IfG data training)

Google Scholar has parsed this cafeteria lunch menu as an author list, and it's delightful (Alex Klotz, via Tim)

"Data is the new oil"... (Mat Velloso)

Another day another stupid Excel chart (@_daviant, via Alice)

This is the most important graph I've been sent at work today (Rachel Tilghman)

Grafica a torta (via Giuseppe)

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