🗺 Harta ratei de incidență pe localități 🌄 Locality-level incidence rate map

Recent epidemiological measures in Romania link the level of restrictions to the locality-level infection rate. This shows the number of new cases in the last two weeks, per thousand people (‰). The government has only published locality-level data since early March this year (2021) (but not on the official COVID19 communication site, but in the

COVID-19 – Romanian Economic Impact Monitor

Lately, I was working on developing the visualizations for the COVID-19 – Romanian Economic Impact Monitor. This is a research project led by the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Babes-Bolyai University – Romania’s largest and top-ranked) with specialists from the Babes-Bolyai University, myself from Lancaster University and the Romanian National Bank. This

Bucharest 1930s 📽 old footage restored using machine learning

This is a follow-up on my recent post on automatic restoration of old video footage using machine learning. 📽 Source videos Fining source videos for Bucharest project proved to be more challenging than for Budapest, but eventually I settled on a footage from the 1930s, often considered the golden age of the city – a

Budapest 1896 📽 Automatic restoration of old video footage using machine learning

Recently, several videos have been popping up on the internet that showed really old video footage restored to modern standards. From a contextual perspective, it is a very fascinating process – i.e. using the knowledge of the past 100 years to create a better image of the even more distant past – but it is

Modelling 🦠 Coronavirus – Quarantine?!

As coronavirus is threatening to become a global pandemic, I’ve built seven epidemiological models of increasing complexity in order to illustrate how infectious diseases get transmitted over time. Among others, I try to answer the questions of what is the scientific rationale behind a surgical mask or an all-out quarantine. This is a video commentary