News with the tag data collection

A few weeks ago, we announced our intention to conduct a second study. Well, after an intense month of data collection, we are pleased to report that the second study has concluded successfully!

Similar to what we did for the first study, once the data was collected, we began the data curation process. In a previous post, we explained what this process involves, which will be very similar this time and will enable us to clean and prepare the extensive dataset recorded so that it can be used by both the POSTCOVID-AI platform and any other researchers or organizations interested.

We would like to take this opportunity to once again express our gratitude for the collaboration of all the study participants. Without their dedication, projects like these would be unfeasible.

It has been over a year since we conducted the first of two planned studies in POSTCOVID-AI. After several intense months of data exploration in the initial study, along with the incorporation of certain technical improvements in the app and data collection system, we are now prepared to commence the second study of POSTCOVID-AI, scheduled to begin in the upcoming weeks. This new study poses an even greater challenge than the previous one. While the goal remains to collect the same type of data over a similar time frame (approximately one month), this time around, we are working with a significantly larger participant group. In fact, the objective is to replicate the first study with a sample of approximately 400 people, quadrupling the number of participants from the previous study, thus representing one of the largest mobile longitudinal datasets to date. This increase primarily aims to provide stronger support for the knowledge gained from the initial study up to this point and to yield additional data for the formulation of new hypotheses.

In the last post, we described the main features of the first study of the POSTCOVID-AI project. After an intensive month of data collection, we can now say that the study has been successfully completed! 

The data are currently being "curated" by the project research team. In the next post, we will tell you in more detail what this process consists of and what the resulting product of this process will be. As a preview, we can say that the curation process will allow cleaning and preparing the big set of recorded data so that they can be used both by the POSTCOVID-AI platform and by any other interested researcher or entity.