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Date Published
Author
Dan Rushton
Word count
767
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

CARTO & Fulcrum partner to provide COVID-19 emergency response solutions, addressing challenges in data collection, analysis, and visualization. The partnership aims to accelerate the response to COVID-19 by simplifying the data lifecycle for organizations and individuals using data to fight the pandemic. CARTO's spatial analysis platform complements Fulcrum's mobile apps, enabling users to store, analyze, and visualize location data collected from various industries such as healthcare, epidemiology, critical infrastructure security, telecoms, and agriculture. The integrated solutions facilitate real-time data collection, analysis, and visualization for various use cases including clinical infection prevention, patient case data collection, corporate inspection, and facility management. The partnership provides mutual solutions for a three-month period through the grants program, allowing organizations to deploy at no cost with app support, helping to contain the pandemic and support economic recovery.