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How the highly-followed CovidTracker site was born

2021-01-06T13:19:37.900Z


At 24, data scientist Guillaume Rozier has compiled all the data available on the epidemic. Number of people tested, infected, hospitalized, in intensive care ... Until the death toll. The Covid-19 epidemic gives rise to an avalanche of figures. But it was not until the initiative of a 24-year-old data scientist, Guillaume Rozier, to see the first tracking graphs appear, first on social networks, then on a dedicated site, CovidTracker. Simple, easy to understand and regularly updated, th


Number of people tested, infected, hospitalized, in intensive care ... Until the death toll.

The Covid-19 epidemic gives rise to an avalanche of figures.

But it was not until the initiative of a 24-year-old data scientist, Guillaume Rozier, to see the first tracking graphs appear, first on social networks, then on a dedicated site, CovidTracker.

Simple, easy to understand and regularly updated, these graphics quickly won over the media.

The young man toured the TV shows and even received a call from the office of the Minister of Health.

This new glory did not turn the well-made head of Guillaume Rozier, just graduated from Telecom Nancy.

Le Savoyard, specializing in

“artificial intelligence and mass data”,

began collecting the available data on Covid-19 in March.

Trainee in a bank in Luxembourg, he is faced with an ubiquitous situation:

“I could not stay in Luxembourg.

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Source: lefigaro

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