Interactive visualizations are an effective method for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents a repository filled with just such insightful interactions.

This year's KDD Cup features four distinct tracks that welcome participants to tackle challenges in e-commerce, generative adversarial networks, automatic graph representation learning (AutoGraph) and mobility-on-demand (MoD) platforms. Winners will be recognized at KDD 2020, the leading interdisciplinary conference in data science, in San Diego on August 23-27, 2020.

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Check out this curated collection of coronavirus-related projections, dashboards, visualizations, and data that we have encountered on the internet.

Understanding the types of statistical bias that pop up in popular media and reporting is especially important during this pandemic where the data -- and our global response to the data -- directly impact peoples' lives.

The Spotify-owned company’s new tool may help businesses get more out of their webinars and online conference content.

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The hit in mid-March was sudden and dramatic, but there appear to be signs, including from media buyers, that the worst is over.

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The companies are part of a shift toward deeper integration between online and offline operations.

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It’s one step closer to the podcast analytics advertisers have been waiting for.

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For many sophisticated marketing technology platforms, it is nearly impossible to be a technology-only company.

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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) - Three children in New York have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, a development that may augur a pandemic risk for children. Cuomo had on Friday disclosed the death of a 5-year old linked to the coronavirus and a syndrome that shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease, which was the first known fatality tied to the rare illness in New York. The governor told a daily briefing on Saturday that the illness had now taken the lives of at least three young people across the state

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(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday approved emergency use authorization (EUA) to Quidel Corp for the first COVID-19 antigen test. The emergency use authorization was issued late Friday to Quidel for the Sofia 2 SARS Antigen FIA, the agency said.

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FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's president Julius Maada Bio has accused the main opposition party of orchestrating a spate of violent incidents, deepening a political standoff that risks undermining the country's efforts to contain a coronavirus outbreak. At least 18 people have died in three riots in separate parts of the country in recent weeks, including a disturbance at Freetown's central prison on April 29 which started after an inmate tested positive for the virus. In a televised address, Bio claimed members of the All People's Congress (APC) party were behind the violence.

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PARIS (Reuters) - The number of people who have died from coronavirus infections in France rose by 80 to 26,310 on Saturday, the health ministry said, a much smaller daily increase than the previous day when it was 243. The ministry said the number of people in intensive care units - a key measure of a health system's ability to deal with the epidemic - fell by 56, or about 2%, to 2,812. That is less than half the peak of 7,148 seen on April 8

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The nationwide tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 59,662 on Saturday and the death toll rose to 1,981 with the country registering an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in 24 hours till Saturday morning, the Union Health Ministry said

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Duncan Watts, professor of sociology at Columbia University.

Jonathan Zittrain, professor at the Oxford Internet Institute and cofounder of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

John Landry, HBR book reviewer.

Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar and president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios.

Michael Schrage, research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business and author of "Serious Play."

Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and author of "The Way We're Working Isn't Working."

Richard Pascale, associate fellow of Said Business School at Oxford University and coauthor of "The Power of Positive Deviance."

Leslie Gaines-Ross, chief reputation strategist at Weber Shandwick and author of the HBR article "Reputation Warfare."

Ricky Gervais, creator of the hit television series "The Office."

Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other."

Bob Pozen, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and author of the HBR article "Extreme Productivity."

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of "Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business."

Andy O'Connell and Scott Berinato, editors of the Idea Watch section of HBR and The Daily Stat.

Charlotte Fritz, assistant professor at Portland State University.

Sallie Krawcheck, former president of Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management and author of the HBR article "Four Ways to Fix Banks."

Alexandra Samuel, vice president of social media at Vision Critical.

Bruce Nussbaum, professor at Parsons The New School of Design and author of "Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire."

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead."

Dr. Maya Angelou, renowned author.

Eric Clayberg, Google software-engineering manager, talks with Harvard Business School professor David Garvin about the feedback and training that he and others at the company receive through Project Oxygen.

Lenovo's CEO on how the PC leader is poised to win in the "PC plus" world.

Steve J. Martin, coauthor of "The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence," on the little things that persuade.

The CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment discusses the crisis with editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius.

The acclaimed writer describes how he develops his novels, what he expects from reviewers, and why business people should still read fiction.

Job interviews can feel more like a stylized ritual than a normal conversation. Esquire writer and journalist Cal Fussman, who's interviewed scores of people from Mikhail Gorbachev to Jeff Bezos to Dr. Dre, gives us his advice, from how to build trust with a subject to getting an honest answer to a tough question.

The research shows we shouldn't be afraid to ask for help. Francesca Gino and Alison Wood Brooks, both of Harvard Business School, explain.

Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO, on breakthrough problem-solving.