Written by Maya Crowden, Zihan Zheng, Tam Fleming, Anusha Bayya Surveying during COVID As businesses have struggled to adapt to evolving COVID-19 restrictions and reopening strategies, many have turned to new technologies to try to understand how consumer sentiment is changing. Most popular survey tools, such as Google Forms and SurveyMonkey, rely on…

The Context As America struggles to find its footing with COVID-19, many parts of the world have moved on. Throughout COVID, our team has developed solutions to mitigate the crisis now — in particular, the Open Axiom Initiative, our joint initiative with AreaProbe focused on creating COVID-safe locations. …

Your Reading Habits Online The Internet is an essential medium that permeates nearly every aspect of modern life. People can establish communities without geographic restrictions and access content about hobbies, the news, and as much knowledge as they can possibly intake. But you already know all this. You’re reading this online — and the…

By Nikita Jakkam, Sangyun Kang. Edited by Maya Crowden When cities across the globe decided to prohibit indoor dining, many wondered how many restaurants and eateries would survive. …

By Corinne Kleinman and Adwoa Brako. As America shut down businesses and many converted to the work-from-home Zoom conference routine, parents struggled to adjust to balancing their new homeschooling lives while completing their own work. Both Twitter and Reddit were full of posts about parenting suggestions, stress and anxiety over…

By Kriti Verma, Jesse Welch, Cynthia Lu, Nikita Jakkam, Wendy Zhong, Sam Kamau. In the good ol’ days when Jeff Bezos was just a figment of his parent’s imaginations, shopping was simple — you and your family left the comfort of your car, walked toward the pearly gates, and wowed…

by Linbo Ruan, Kyle Costello, and Nikita Jakkam. Edited by Maya Crowden Who is at Most Risk: Population Factors — Kyle Costello Who is at Most Risk: Transportation — Nikita Jakkam The Political Nature of the Virus — Linbo Ruan America will have to make some very tough decisions in…