Steve Rimar, Founder at Analytica Consulting, LLC Data 4 Good This talk focuses on our story of how we helped the government of California manage the emergency response to the COVDI-19 pandemic over the past few years. We'll go over how we became part of California's COVID-19 data task force and the challenges that were overcome to provide real-time and accurate COVID-19 statistics for California. Please see http://covid19.ca.gov for more information.

1. Helping California Tackle the COVID-19 Pandemic
Using Data Analytics
Steve Rimar
CEO & Founder
Analytica Consulting

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Timeline – How We Got Involved
• Governor’s COVID-19 Dashboard Task Force
• Overcoming Challenges
• Summary and Q&A

3. About Me
• CEO & Founder of Analytica Consulting
• Former Director of Analytics at Qualcomm
• Former Principal Consultant at Accenture
• 20+ Years of Analytics, Software Engineering & IT Expertise
• Multiple Publications within InformationWeek, CNN,
Investors Business Daily, etc.

4. Analytica Consulting
• Technology services firm specializing in
data analytics with domain expertise in:
– Public Health
– Healthcare
– Life Sciences
– Biotech
– Manufacturing
– Marketing
– Product Development
– Finance

5. 2020 2021
Q1 2020 Q2 2020 Q3 2020 Q4 2020 Q1 2021
COVID
Community
Transmission
in US
Analytica joined
Governor's
Dashboard Task
Force
Cases Stats &
Demographics
+
PPE
Supply/Demand
Homeless
Impact
+
Skilled Nursing
Facility
State of California COVID-19 Analytics History
Economic Impact
& Blueprint for
Reopening
COVID Vaccine
Administration
Tracking
Hospital Bed
and ICU
Availability
Cases and State
Dashboard 2.0
Analytica COVID
Dashboard
Published in
SDUT
Q2 2021 Q3 2021
COVID Vaccine
Equity
COVID Vaccine
Provider
Inventory

6. Published Tableau Dashboard in SDUT
• Goal was to inform the public
• Aggregated data from Johns Hopkins,
CDC and WHO
• Internal effort
• 10k views/day
• https://www.sandiegouniontribune.c
om/news/health/tracking-covid-19-
in-the-u-s

7. GO COVID-19 Dashboard Task Force
Project Mission:
• Enable Public Health Officials & Governor’s
Office with real-time COVID-19 statistics for
improved emergency response to the pandemic
• Inform the public with accurate data regarding
COVID-19
Project Results:
• Integrated data from several CA State agencies
into a Centralized System
• Developed public and internal dashboards
showing:
– Cases, Testing, Deaths
– ICU Admissions & Bed Availability
– Ventilator Availability
– Current PPE Supply/Need
– Alternate Facility Availability
– Vaccine Distribution

8. Inform the Public – COVID19.CA.GOV

9. Case Statistics

10. Hospital Impact

11. Blueprint for a Safer Economy

12. Internal Operations Center

13. Governor’s Press Conference

14. Overcoming Challenges

15. Overcoming Challenges
• Finding the right technology architecture

16. 8 am 9 am 10 am 11 am 12 pm 1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm 5 pm 6 pm 7 pm 8 pm 9 pm 10 pm
Day 183
8:45 am - 9:00 am Daily Check-In
9:00 am - 4:30 pm Dev Time
10:45 am - 11:00 am Publish Public Dashboards
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm AM/PM Handoff
3:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Data Load (ETL) /
Refresh Dashboards /
QA Checks
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Publish
Internal
Dashboards
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Governor's Noon Press Conference
Overcoming Challenges

17. • Making the data public for
research purposes
• Real-time updates
• https://covid19.ca.gov/dat
a-and-tools
Overcoming Challenges

18. Summary
• This was a tremendous effort and still ongoing
– Pediatric doses (Under 5 y/o)
– Upcoming variant vaccines (omicron)
– New variant surveillance
– Monkeypox
• Questions? Contact steverimar@analyticaconsulting.com