The volume and speed of data generation in biomedical literature, social media, and other resources during the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. This mountain of data is growing daily across PubMed, Twitter, Google Scholar, and the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 database,¹ naming a few. … Beyond social media, the massive COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) has been assembled from tech giants like Microsoft, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.² This dataset houses over 12,000 full text articles in “machine-readable form” that can be ingested programmatically into computer software programs and analyzed using machine learning applications like natural language processing (NLP). 

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1. This resources was published by the World Health Organization. “Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19). https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov
2. This press release was issued the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. “Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/call-action-tech-community-new-machine-readable-covid-19-dataset/