Impact

Awards

CoronaSurveys was among the five finalists for the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge. Over 150 researchers and 50 organizations participated in the call for proposals entitled the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge, sponsored by Facebook Data for Good, with the participation of Delphi Group-Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the Joint Program on Survey Methodology-University of Maryland (UMD), the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, and Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative by Vital Strategies. Read more.

CoronaSurveys has received honorable mention in the Pandemic Response Challenge. The project was among the top ten of the challenge launched by XPrize in partnership with Cognizant. Read more.

Our team member, Ananth Venkatesh, from San Ramon Valley High School, USA, finished in third place in the 2022 Congressional App Challenge for the 11th district of California for his app COVID-19 Notebook. Read more.

Reports & Publications

• Jesus Rufino, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Jose Aguilar, Carlos Baquero, Jaya Champati, Davide Frey, Rosa Elvira Lillo, Antonio Fernandez Anta. Consistent comparison of symptom-based methods for COVID-19 infection detection, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 177, September 2023, 105133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105133
• Jesus Rufino, Juan Marcos Ramirez, Jose Aguilar, Carlos Baquero, Jaya Champati, Davide Frey, Rosa Elvira Lillo, Antonio Fernandez Anta. Performance and explainability of feature selection-boosted tree-based classifiers for COVID-19 detection. Heliyon, vol 10, issue 1, E23219, Jan 15, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23219.
  • Initial version at MedRxiv: Feature Selection for an Explainability Analysis in Detection of COVID-19 Active Cases from Facebook User-Based Online Surveys, MedRxiv, June 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.26.23290608
• Juan M. Ramírez, Sergio Díaz-Aranda, Jose Aguilar, Oluwasegun Ojo, Rosa Elvira Lillo,  Antonio Fernández Anta. A Snapshot of COVID-19 Incidence, Hospitalizations, and Mortality from Indirect Survey Data in China in January 2023, MedRxiv, Jan 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.22.23286167.
• Jesús Rufino et al. Using survey data to estimate the impact of the omicron variant on vaccine efficacy against COVID-19 infection, Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 900 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-27951-3.
  • Initial version at MedRxiv, Jan 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.21.22269636.
  • Revised preliminary version presented at epiDAMIK 5.0: The 5th International workshop on Epidemiology meets Data Mining and Knowledge discovery, ACM SIGKDD 2022, Washington DC, USA, August 2022.

• Javier Álvarez et al. Estimating Active Cases of COVID-19, arXiv:2108.03284 [physics.soc-ph], August 2021. Presented at the 2nd KDD Workshop on Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping: Harnessing Human-Machine Intelligence for High-Stake Public Policy and Resiliency Planning, August 15, 2021. Updated version in MedRxiv, December 2021.
• Carlos Baquero et al. The CoronaSurveys System for COVID-19 Incidence Data Collection and Processing, Front. Comput. Sci., 08 June 2021. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2021.641237
• Augusto Garcia-Agundez, Oluwasegun Ojo, Harold Hernandez, Carlos Baquero, Davide Frey, Chryssis Georgiou, Mathieu Goessens, Rosa Lillo, Raquel Menezes, Nicolas Nicolaou, Antonio Ortega, Efstathios Stavrakis, Antonio Fernandez Anta. Estimating the COVID-19 Prevalence in Spain with Indirect Reporting via Open Surveys, Front. Public Health, 09 April 2021. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.658544
• INESC TEC. Estimating active cases of COVID-19: The unknown matters, Medium.com, July 16th, 2020.
• Oluwasegun Ojo et al. CoronaSurveys: Using Surveys with Indirect Reporting to Estimate the Incidence and Evolution of Epidemics, arXiv:2005.12783 v2 [cs.DC], June 2020. Presented at The KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping, San Diego, California USA, August 24, 2020.
• Carlos Baquero, Paolo Casari, Antonio Fernandez Anta, Davide Frey, Augusto Garcia-Agundez, Chryssis Georgiou, Raquel Menezes, Nicolas Nicolaou, Oluwasegun Ojo, Paul Patras. Measuring Icebergs: Using Different Methods to Estimate the Number of COVID-19 Cases in Portugal and Spain, medRxiv, April 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.20.20073056

Media presence

English

• CoronaSurveys, selected as Finalist in Pandemic Response Challenge. IMDEA Networks News (February 2021).
• The CoronaSurveys Project, among the finalists for the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge.
  IMDEA Networks News (December 2020).
• The project led by IMDEA Networks’ researcher to measure the real impact of Covid using social networks’ surveys now reaches 150 countries. IMDEA Networks News (July 2020).
• The Scientist (July 6th, 2020)
• J on the Beach (June 3rd,2020)
• Phys.org (April 3rd, 2020)
• DiCYT (April 3rd, 2020)
• Total Telecom (April 2nd, 2020)
• Alphagallileo (April 2nd, 2020)
• An international team led by a researcher from IMDEA Networks counts more than two million current symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in Spain. IMDEA Networks News (April 2020).

Spanish

• Investigadores madrileños radiografían la Covid-19 a través de una encuesta por internet, La Razón (Febrary 20th, 2021)
• Corona Surveys: Estudiando la incidencia del coronavirus en tiempo real, Madri+d Noticias (February 19th, 2021)
• CoronaSurveys, finalista del Pandemic Response Challenge, Madri+d Blog Sociedad de la Información (February 20121)
• Diez investigaciones “made in Madrid” de las que está pendiente todo el planeta ciencia, Telemadrid (November 12th, 2020)
• El Quijote de los números: La peligrosa política de las cifras Covid-19, El Martutino (October 1st, 2020)
• Leganés Activo (September 14th, 2020)
• Leganés Activo (september 13th, 2020)
• Casi 5.000 casos y un 8,7% de prevalencia: los primeros resultados de ‘Coronasurvey’ en Arganda, Diario de Arganda (August 4th, 2020)
• Los primeros resultados de ‘Coronasurvey’ en Rivas: más de 7.000 casos y una prevalencia del 8%, Diario de Rivas (August 4th, 2020)
• Rivas y Arganda se unen a un proyecto que mide la incidencia del coronavirus. Telemadrid (August 3rd, 2020)
• Rivas y Arganda se unen a un proyecto que mide la incidencia de la pandemia, La Vanguardia (August 2nd, 2020)
• A hombros de gigantes, Radio 5 (May 31st, 2020)
• Big Data & AI: Creando valor en entornos acelerados (May 27th, 2020)
• Carne Cruda – Matemáticas y coronavirus: qué dicen los datos (May 10th, 2020)
• Data for Hope, Spain (April 29th, 2020)
• COPE, Spain (April 12th, 2020)
• ABC, Spain (April 9th, 2020)
• ABC, Spain (April 7th, 2020)
• El Pitazo, Venezuela (April 7th, 2020)
• Antena 3 Noticias, Spain (April 2nd, 2020)
• madri+d, Spain (April 2nd, 2020)
• IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain (April 2nd, 2020)
• EFE, Spain (April 1st, 2020)
• EFE, Spain (April 1st, 2020)
• El Pais, Spain (March 25th, 2020)
• Leganews.es, Spain
• Agencias Sinc, Spain
• COPE, Spain
• Eldiario.es, Spain
• Eldiario.es, Spain
• El Independiente, Spain
• Yahoo Noticias, Spain
• La Republica, Spain
• Catalunya Vanguardista, Spain
• Cronica Balear, Spain
• La Sexta, Spain
• El Universal, Spain
• iLeon, Spain

Portuguese

• Embrapa joins international effort to monitor Covid-19 (May 20th, 2020)
• Projeto CoronaSurveys – Brasil, by Ednaldo José Ferreira (May 19th, 2020)
• Science4Covid19, Portugal (April 27th, 2020)
• Bip INESC TEC, Portugal (April 15th, 2020)
• Jornal de Negócios, Portugal (April 13th, 2020)
• Público, Portugal (April 9th, 2020)
• Rádio Renascença, Portugal (April 9th, 2020)
• TV Europa, Portugal (April 5th, 2020)

German

• KOM Group, Germany (April 9th, 2020)
• Darmstaedter Echo, Germany (April 29th, 2020)

Greek

• DisruptCyprusLive, Cyprus (April 22nd, 2020)