I’m finding that there’s a ton of *volume of talk* about COVID19 and not nearly enough aggregation and synthesis. I’m almost done with a project to comprehensively list all the charitable projects to make & donate PPE to healthcare workers. There’s nothing out there like this.
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There’s a fair amount of medical literature out there, also, and very little *synthesis* into answers to questions.
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Most attempts to draw conclusions about what should be done, even by very smart people, don’t even attempt to pull up all the relevant evidence that a person with Google could find in a day or two of focused work.
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I don’t know a word for the thing I do. I’m not a doctor; I’m not a nurse; I’m not an engineer. I’m a...writer?
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But I do think what I do is worth doing and not being done adequately by default. People taking action to help with the crisis need information to guide their decisions. And not a flood of popcorn news articles, but something more comprehensive aggregating info.
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I’m tooting my own horn a bit because I think the info-aggregation thing I do needs to become bigger than just “Sarah blog posts” and it needs a name & recognition.
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For example, The Atlantic has done something really valuable that I think goes in this category: compiled all the reports of US COVID19 cases, scattered in local news articles and press releases, into a single dataset with a heatmap of US cases.
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It seems that when you get “hey this info is scattered, let’s put it all together”, software engineers spring into action when it’s a process you can automate...and ALMOST NOBODY BUT ME DOES when it has to be done manually.
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Adam Strandberg Retweeted Patrick McKenzie
example in the wildhttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1246292304656130050 …
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Think http://covid19japan.com a pretty convincing counterexample, which is a synthesis of local software engineers and also 70+ people doing row by row collation.
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