COVID-19 has sent global and domestic supply chains scrambling. As states across the United States began implementing shelter-in-place ordinances in March and April, many Americans also began having difficulties finding essential goods. It is likely that 2020 will go down as a year where toilet paper and hand sanitizer were some of the hottest commodities.
Read More...The COVID-19 pandemic has continued its relentless, lethal spread across the globe, with over 2 million people infected and over 130,000 deaths to date. Some countries that were hit hardest and earliest like China, Spain and Italy, have managed to bend the curve of infections and deaths, while other countries are just starting to see
Read More...The COVID-19 pandemic has marched its way across the globe, with confirmed cases on every continent and in every country. There are over one million confirmed cases and 50,000 attributed deaths. To date, Africa has not been hit as hard as other continents though it has the potential to become the new epicenter of the
Read More...There are now over one million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally and more than 300,000 cases in the United States. In the initial phases of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., the majority of the cases were concentrated in urban centers. However, more cases are starting to appear in rural areas; for example, Albany, Georgia,
Read More...As COVID-19 has spread across the U.S. in recent weeks, health officials are strongly encouraging people to use “social distancing” to help “flatten the curve.” These concepts stem from a major recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which is that one of the best ways to reduce
Read More...Premise Data has a global network of Contributors who are paid to provide ground-level insights through Premise’s mobile app. As of January 2020, over 1.4 million on-the-ground local citizen Contributors are paid to answer surveys and map places across the globe. On average, Contributors are submitting hundreds of thousands of responses to “tasks” per day.
Read More...Data is everywhere. It’s in the can of Coca-Cola you bought this morning from the grocery store on the corner. It’s in the map you use when finding a place to eat. It’s even in the photo of the breakfast you sent to your friend this morning. Data and the decisions that we derive from
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Premise, the global leader in providing real-time, real-world data, announced an agreement with the City of Waco, Texas to deploy its unique ‘ground truth’ data collection capabilities in the rapidly growing central Texas city. Read more
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Going Digital, Integrating Data Science, and Enlisting a Citizen Network By Matej Novak, Head of Programs, Premise Data It’s been one year since Premise partnered with Cali, Colombia on a digital overhaul of the city’s vector surveillance and control operations. In this blog we will discuss our accomplishments, the results of a data science experiment,
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Modern technology continues to reshape the world — from commerce and geopolitics to our daily mundane details. To thrive in this new paradigm every organization, every decision maker, must understand how to become data driven. Some have called data “the new oil, the new gold.” However, unlike oil and gold, information isn’t finite — its only constraint is our
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