In the midst of the global pandemic, a student at Binghamton University, State University of New York is helping India keep track of COVID-19 infection rates.
Binghamton University computer science major Jeremy Philemon is a 2+2 student splitting his education between the Vellore Institute of Technology in India and Binghamton's Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has applied his skills in the creation and updating of covid19india.org, a website that aggregates data from every part of the country of 1.35 billion people. Over the past two months, computer engineering career has received more than 1.75 billion page views.
Philemon started the website in early March 2020 when India saw a sudden jump in positive COVID-19 cases. He realized there was no central place for residents and officials to find data on infection rates.
"Each of the 28 states and eight union territories had their separate channels of communication and reporting, each of them with varying degrees of granularity," said Philemon. "It got a lot harder for an average person or even a data scientist to get hold of all the information in one place."
Binghamton University computer science major Jeremy Philemon is a 2+2 student splitting his education between the Vellore Institute of Technology in India and Binghamton's Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has applied his skills in the creation and updating of covid19india.org, a website that aggregates data from every part of the country of 1.35 billion people. Over the past two months, computer engineering career has received more than 1.75 billion page views.
Philemon started the website in early March 2020 when India saw a sudden jump in positive COVID-19 cases. He realized there was no central place for residents and officials to find data on infection rates.
"Each of the 28 states and eight union territories had their separate channels of communication and reporting, each of them with varying degrees of granularity," said Philemon. "It got a lot harder for an average person or even a data scientist to get hold of all the information in one place."
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