Data Sciences
Uncovering crime patterns using location data
Research
ETH Zurich
The way people move around in cities gives us clues as to when many crimes are committed and in which hotspots, as ETH researchers have demonstrated using anonymised data from  location technology plattforms.
First pilot for the Google and Apple-based decentralised tracing app
Research
EPFL
Employees at EPFL, ETH Zurich, the Army, and some hospitals and cantonal administrations can download the digital proximity tracing application "SwissCovid". This large-scale pilot, the first in the world using the OS updates from Apple and Google, paves the way for public availability by mid-June.
ETH Zurich and the canton of Bern: fighting coronavirus together
Research
ETH Zurich
How exactly is the coronavirus spreading in Switzerland? To determine this based on a large dataset, Biomedical informatics specialists from ETH Zurich and the canton of Bern have now combined their online questionnaires on the shared platform covidtracker.ch.
EPFL software to enable secure data-sharing for hospitals
TechTransfer
EPFL
The MedCo system aims to facilitate medical research on pathologies — such as cancer and infectious diseases — by enabling secure computations on decentralized data. The unique software has recently been deployed at three Swiss hospitals.
On the trail of the virus
Research
ETH Zurich
Participate in containing coronavirus: medical informatics specialists at ETH Zurich have developed a monitoring system to complement corona tests and track how the virus is spreading in Switzerland. All residents of Switzerland can take part in the online survey.
How digital humanities can help in a pandemic
Teaching
EPFL
With the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, there is a race against the clock to implement science-based measures to protect society’s most vulnerable populations. Public engagement with data has never been more urgent, and as EPFL professor Robert West explains, digital humanities research has a key role to play.
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