On coronavirus, we should be more like Taiwan Column

Having participated and contributed to many programs on big data, artificial intelligence and health, I realize that yes, medicines and vaccines are needed to treat the COVID-19 virus, but big data analytics can also be mustered into service to prevent the spread of the insidious pandemic that now grips the world. This isn't just a hypothesis by an analytics professor who has spent two decades in the analytics and machine learning area, but it is actually being proven in Taiwan, an island nation that is in close proximity to mainland China, where the virus was first reported in the city of Wuhan. As of the week of March 16, Taiwan reported about 100 detected cases of COVID-19. Taiwan is about as close to the epicenter of this outbreak as any place can get. There is a lot of travel from the Wuhan area to places in Taiwan.