Data Science Conquering Challenges Endured Amidst Covid-19

Aafia Irfan Beg, Aamina Khan, Dr. Mohammad Faisal

Department of Computer Application
Integral University Lucknow
Aafia@student.iul.ac.in,Aminaa@student.iul.ac.in,mdfaisal@iul.ac.in

Abstract : COVID-19 has dramatically changed our lives since it was declared pandemic. It turned economy upside
down and led millions to job losses. Multiple countries reported negative GDP growth due to COVID-19 and there
is fear of countries going into recession too. Data Science is working as a saviour in this pandemic as we have
utilised Data Science techniques to fight epidemic.Data Science is mainly used for better decision making (whether
A or B), predictive analysis (what will happen next) and pattern discovery (is there any hidden information in the
data). A number of Data Science technologies like Contact Tracing application, Surveillance System and Automated
Health Monitoring Robot are being used to combat the spread of virus. In this abstract, we describe how the Data
Science is preventing the wave of infection. The coronavirus is a highly contagious respiratory disease which affect
the lungs. We can see the extent of damage once the virus infects the lungs through Image Analysis techniques.
Imaging of lungs gives better understanding of COVID-19 virus and its early detection. Deep Learning and Image
processing has made it easy for a radiologist to detect the area of damage. Doctors just have to upload patient’s
scanned file on cloud-based web interface and it returns diagnosis result in a matter of few seconds. To prevent
the spread of virus, we have employed tracing technique using Data Visualization. In this technique, we prepare
graph using scatter plot to show coronavirus hotspot areas in different countries. The Digital apps are designed to
collect individual’s personal data through which we trace a person who is more vulnerable to novel virus. This
helps in recognizing the affected people easily without having physical contact and also keeps the data for future
analysis. We have controlled further spread of virus by using Social distancing tool. Deep learning technique has
made it easy to ensure Social distancing.World Health Organization is providing accurate information by collecting
data from different social media platforms. The collected data may be structured or unstructured. So, to extract
valuable information hidden in unstructured data we have used Text Data Mining technique. Natural Language
Processing (NLP), Data mining, and Predictive analytics help to prevent misconceptions regarding COVID-19. One of
the big challenge was to control the virus with the limited resources as India was in state of lockdown for around 6
month. We had the limited availability of the Doctors, Nurses, and medical supplies stock. Our struggle was to
control the spread and cure the patients with minimum closure. Deep Reinforcement Learning techniques made it
easy for us. It helped us in understanding how one should take action in this pandemic. We used the Intelligent
resource allocation system to minimize the risk factor of spread of this virus.Drug discovery is essential in
indentifying existing therapy for coronavirus patient. This is being done by studying the effectiveness of drugs by
employing Deep Learning technique on biomedical data.We have concluded that Data science has played massive
role in safe unlock and helped us immensly in fighting against Coronavirus.

Keywords : Data Science, Data Visualization, Image Processing, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data Mining ,
Predictive Analysis and Deep Reinforcement Learning.