News: Statistics and Data Sciences

Every day a city delayed social distancing increased an outbreak by 2.4 days.

A University of Texas at Austin model that projects COVID-19 deaths for all 50 U.S. states and dozens of metro areas using geolocation data.

A new pandemic model of COVID-19 shows the positive role social distancing can play in preventing the spread of the illness in areas across Texas.

Since 2012 a pandemic-planning tool developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has helped public health officials plan for the consequences of...

Measures including isolation, quarantine, school closures, travel restrictions and cancellation of mass gatherings may be warranted.

The findings could help public health officials identify pockets of low vaccination rates where communities within the state are at higher risk for an outbreak.

Virus likely spread beyond Wuhan before quarantines and lockdowns.

$1.5M award from National Science Foundation to support cross-disciplinary machine learning and data science research

Meet Corwin Zigler and his research on how changes in air pollution regulations impact people's health, and his decision to join UT Austin's Department of...