New York City weathers pandemic with data-first response
summary
New York City centralizes and integrates multiple datasets to track cases (75,000 by March 31) and hospital strain (nearly 600 deaths on April 7), turning live feeds into operational decisions from a 24/7 emergency operations center. A ten-person analytics office builds Tableau visualizations that combine hospital reports and other feeds to create icu bed inventory integration and enable ambulance routing to open beds. City launches a recovery data partnership (11 partners) to supply high-frequency private-sector signals.
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