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ArticleTransactions in GIS : TG2021

The US COVID Atlas: A dynamic cyberinfrastructure surveillance system for interactive exploration of the pandemic.

Marynia Kolak, Xun Li, Qinyun Lin, Ryan Wang, Moksha Menghaney, Stephanie Yang, Vidal Anguiano

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Article in Transactions in GIS : TG, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A research agenda for GIScience in a time of disruptions.International journal of geographical information science : IJGIS · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marynia KolakDivision of Social Sciences Center for Spatial Data Science University of Chicago Chicago IL USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6070-9167
Xun LiDivision of Social Sciences Center for Spatial Data Science University of Chicago Chicago IL USA.
Qinyun LinDivision of Social Sciences Center for Spatial Data Science University of Chicago Chicago IL USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9792-3351
Ryan WangDivision of Social Sciences Center for Spatial Data Science University of Chicago Chicago IL USA.
Moksha MenghaneyDivision of Social Sciences Center for Spatial Data Science University of Chicago Chicago IL USA.
Stephanie YangDivision of Social Sciences Center for Spatial Data Science University of Chicago Chicago IL USA.
Vidal AnguianoDivision of Social Sciences Center for Spatial Data Science University of Chicago Chicago IL USA.
University of Chicago · US

Funding

Survey CoreU2CDA050098 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI POLLACK, HAROLD ALEXANDER, SCHNEIDER, JOHN · 2019 to 2019
$17.2M
NIDA NIH HHS U2C DA050098
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Distributed spatial infrastructures leveraging cloud computing technologies can tackle issues of disparate data sources and address the need for data-driven knowledge discovery and more sophisticated spatial analysis central to the COVID-19 pandemic. We implement a new, open source spatial middleware component (libgeoda) and system design to scale development quickly to effectively meet the need for surveilling county-level metrics in a rapidly changing pandemic landscape. We incorporate, wrangle, and analyze multiple data streams from volunteered and crowdsourced environments to leverage multiple data perspectives. We integrate explorative spatial data analysis (ESDA) and statistical hotspot standards to detect infectious disease clusters in real time, building on decades of research in GIScience and spatial statistics. We scale the computational infrastructure to provide equitable access to data and insights across the entire USA, demanding a basic but high-quality standard of ESDA techniques. Finally, we engage a research coalition and incorporate principles of user-centered design to ground the direction and design of Atlas application development.

Identifiers

PMID34512108
PMCPMC8420397
OpenAlexW3177285885

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Registered trials

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