Engineers and Computer Scientists Predict the Spread of a Flu Pandemic with New Tool
August 11, 2010
Engineers and computer scientists designed a tool to track the spread of a flu pandemic, comparing scenarios with and without the influence of antiviral drugs and social distancing measures. The tool uses data from the 1918 flu pandemic to simulate the daily spread over a two-month period across an entire state. The simulation demonstrates how specific measures would affect the availability of hospital beds, the percentage of people who contract the flu and number of deaths.
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U.S. Coast Guard accredits analytical system developed at Purdue
May 7, 2013
In efforts to prioritize and efficiently manage the repair of boats and stations damaged by Superstorm Sandy, the U.S. Coast Guard has accredited a system called Coast Guard Search and Rescue Visual Analytics (cgSARVA) developed in collaboration with
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February 25, 2013
Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE) and the Miami-Dade County Department of Emergency Management, DITRG has produced a tool known as the Multimedia Aided Disaster Information Integration System (MADIS).
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