Publications

Reports & Publications

• 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)