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Artificial Intelligence and the Fight Against COVID-19

15 June 2020
In Innovation policy
30 min read
Juan Mateos-Garcia

Juan Mateos-Garcia

Juan Mateos-Garcia

Director of Data Analytics Practice

Juan Mateos-Garcia was the Director of Data Analytics at Nesta.

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Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos

Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos

Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos

Principal Researcher, Innovation Mapping

Konstantinos worked as a Principal Researcher on Nesta's Research Analysis and Policy team.

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Joel Klinger

Joel Klinger

Joel Klinger

Data Engineering Senior Lead, Data Analytics

Joel is Nesta’s Data Engineering Senior Lead

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Executive summary Introduction Data sources and methodology Findings – Levels and evolution of activity Findings – Topical composition Findings – Geography Findings – Knowledge creation and combination Findings – Quality Conclusion Bibliography Resources

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Annex

List of terms similar to AI produced by word2vec:

['optimization_algorithm', 'convolutional_neural', 'automatic_detection', 'transfer_learning', 'semi_supervised', 'dnn', 'pre_trained', 'artificial_intelligence', 'natural_language', 'deep_learning', 'machine_learning', 'training_dataset', 'covid_net', 'classification', 'cnn', 'learning_based', 'deep_neural', 'neural_network', 'feature_extraction', 'deep_convolutional', 'supervised_learning', 'machine_learning_based', 'computational_intelligence', 'machine_intelligence']

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Authors

Juan Mateos-Garcia

Juan Mateos-Garcia

Juan Mateos-Garcia

Director of Data Analytics Practice

Juan Mateos-Garcia was the Director of Data Analytics at Nesta.

View profile
Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos

Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos

Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos

Principal Researcher, Innovation Mapping

Konstantinos worked as a Principal Researcher on Nesta's Research Analysis and Policy team.

View profile
Joel Klinger

Joel Klinger

Joel Klinger

Data Engineering Senior Lead, Data Analytics

Joel is Nesta’s Data Engineering Senior Lead

View profile

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