Temporal Data Analytics on COVID-19 Data with Ubiquitous Computing

ABSTRACT

With technological advancements in computing and communications, huge amounts of big data are generated and collected at a very rapid rate from a wide variety of rich data sources. Embedded in these big data are useful information and valuable knowledge. An example is healthcare and epidemiological data such as data related to patients who suffered from viral diseases like the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Knowledge discovered from these epidemiological data via data science helps researchers, epidemiologists and policy makers to get a better understanding of the disease, which may inspire them to come up ways to detect, control and combat the disease. In this paper, we present a temporal data science algorithm for analyzing big COVID-19 epidemiological data, with focus on the temporal data analytics with ubiquitous computing. The algorithm helps users to get a better understanding of information about the confirmed cases of COVID-19. Evaluation results show the benefits of our system in temporal data analytics of big COVID-19 data with ubiquitous computing. Although the algorithm is designed for temporal data analytics of big epidemiological data, it would be applicable to other temporal data analytics of big data in many real-life applications and services.