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Short Bio:: Paul Derstine works with clients to understand their data analytics goals and how Elder Research's vast experience with data engineering, data analytics, and data visualization can deliver solutions that enable return on their analytics investment.

Company:: Elder Research

Job Title:: Director of Marketing

Seniority:: Manager

Job Function:: Other

Industry:: Data Science Consulting

Interests:: Other

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Visualizing the Performance of COVID Models

Posted on June 2, 2020 at 7:06am 0 Comments 0 Likes

by Chris McLean & Peter Bruce

Never before have statistical models received the attention they are getting now in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. It is hard to read a news feed today without encountering either:

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Lockdowns Knock Down the Spread of COVID-19, but Only to a Point (and only early on)

Posted on June 2, 2020 at 6:44am 0 Comments 0 Likes

by Mike Thurber and John Elder, Ph.D.

By tracking anonymized mobile phone location data and COVID-19 case reports for many countries with different policies, we studied the effect of restricting mobility on the spread of COVID-19. We found that lockdown policies did rapidly reduce the…

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COVID-19: Tuesday Blips in a “Downward Trajectory”

Posted on May 11, 2020 at 6:32am 0 Comments 0 Likes

by Carl Hoover, Senior Advisor, Elder Research

We observe a peculiar counter-fluctuation in a COVID-19 statistic -- daily percent changes in deaths; it has a downward trend, but Tuesdays tend to see small increases.

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