Introducing the case study
As the world started grappling with the ramifications of COVID-19, healthcare systems across the globe started dealing with the new overwhelming burden of caring for the people infected with the disease. For instance, in the US governments, all levels – Federal, State, and local, had to make decisions so they can help the hospitals as they struggled to shoulder the crisis. The good news is that database and data analytics technologies were able to create real value for these decision-makers. For instance, the following figure shows a dashboard that monitors the COVID-19 situation for Los Angeles County in the State of California in the United States. The figure was collected from http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/data/index.htm on October 4, 2021.
Figure 16.1 – An LA County COVID-19 data dashboard
In this case study, we are going to see an example of data analytics that can be of meaningful value to...
