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The efficacy rate and what it really means

Edson Guido, ABS-CBN Data Analytics
Updated as of Dec 28 03:56 PM

What does 50% efficacy rate actually mean? How does it translate to real life? Let’s do the math. Read more »

Dissecting Data: How COVID-19 vaccine access is revealing truth about global pecking order

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 26 04:07 PM

The Philippines will only get access to COVID-19 vaccines by the second quarter of 2021, or mid 2022, depending on who you are asking. The government isn’t to blame. At least not the Philippine government. The governments of developed countries however are a different story. Based on the latest data, some rich nations have bought up enough doses to cover their entire population 5 times.    Read more »

Dissecting Data: PH Red Cross-PhilHealth row blinding gov’t to status of outbreak

Edson Guido and Warren de Guzman, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 27 08:54 PM

To date, the Philippine Red Cross has accounted for nearly a quarter of all COVID-19 testing. Without the PRC, the government would not have been able to accurately monitor the COVID-19 outbreak in the Philippines. Read more »

Pandemic of neglect: COVID-19 deaths in PH have doubled since August, and the dying are not getting hospital care

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 12 06:54 PM

COVID-19 deaths in the Philippines have doubled since August, and the number of COVID-19 fatalities that never made it to hospital have more than doubled as well in that same time frame. More bad news, the deaths are accelerating this October, even as the daily number of confirmed cases of the disease appear to be slowing. Read more »

Dissecting Data: Why Duterte wants bickering lawmakers to pass the budget now

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 09 06:12 PM

The last time the Philippines suffered a reenacted budget was in 2020, when there was a six-day delay in the signing of the budget for the year, due to a photo finish to budget deliberations in Congress in 2019. But that was nowhere near what happened the year before. Read more »

COVID-19 pandemic in PH in September: Response improves, but testing stalls while total cases hit 2 grave milestones

Warren de Guzman, Edson Guido, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 03 12:45 AM

Total COVID-19 cases in the Philippines breached 300,000, after surpassing 100,000 and 200,000 in August. Reported cases are slowing, but this coincides with a plateauing testing effort. The Philippines has also breached the top 20 list of countries with the most COVID-19 cases in the world. Read more »

Delayed data: Study shows DOH reported over 15,600 COVID-19 cases months late

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 02 05:59 PM

It showed that while Filipinos thought there were only 2,078 COVID-19 cases in March, when the government first imposed community quarantine measures, delayed reporting of cases showed 6,211 actual cases for the month. Read more »

Secretive Big Data firm Palantir makes low-key stocks debut

Juliette Michel and Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 01 08:45 AM

Data analytics firm Palantir, which has drawn fire over its law enforcement and national security work, made a low-key debut Wednesday on Wall Street at a hefty valuation of more than $20 billion. Read more »

Dissecting Data: August worst month on record for PH COVID-19 outbreak, but there is reason for hope

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN Data Analytics
Posted at Sep 04 07:35 PM

More than 128,000 cases were confirmed COVID-19 positive in August. That is more than the total cases of January to July combined. Read more »

COVID-19: A pandemic of neglect?

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 24 03:50 PM

As of August 23, 1,507 out of the 2,998 recorded COVID-19 fatalities never got proper hospital care.  Read more »

A case of late registration? Total deaths in PH in first half 2020 decline year-on-year

Warren de Guzman, ABS-CBN News and ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team
Updated as of Aug 01 01:29 AM

In the time of a coronavirus pandemic and community quarantines, registered deaths in the Philippines declined year-on-year in the first half of 2020, based on Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data. The PSA expects more late registered deaths to come in as the year progresses. Read more »

COVID-19 data dive: Victories and alarm bells

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 30 03:41 AM

The government continues to insist it is winning the fight against COVID-19. It has cited the death rate and the positivity rate as its basis. The ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team finds the data isn’t exactly in their favor.    Read more »

Metro Manila, Central Visayas still struggling to fend off COVID-19

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN Data Analytics
Updated as of Jun 26 11:01 PM

Data show population centers in Metro Manila and Central Visayas are still struggling to fend of COVID-19. There are improvements in ICU care, but the numbers do not look good. Read more »

After 100 days of lockdown, PH is still far from beating COVID-19

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN Data Analytics
Posted at Jun 23 07:02 PM

The numbers show the Philippines is far from beating COVID-19, despite instituting the longest quarantine in the world at 100 days and counting.   Read more »

Is the National Capital Region ready to lift the lockdown?

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team
Updated as of May 27 05:53 PM

The Philippines has in place one of the longest community quarantines in the world as part of local efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read more »

As lockdown nears end, Health dept struggles to ramp up COVID-19 testing

Warren de Guzman and Edson Guido, ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team
Updated as of May 27 03:48 PM

The Palace recently noted testing capacity has exceeded the target of 30,000 tests per day. But testing capacity is different from actual tests conducted.  Read more »

What's the sexiest job in the digital age? FEU boss taps 2 tablets for the answer

Joel Guinto, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 09 10:12 PM

As it nears the 100-year mark, Far Eastern University is tapping tech and big data to prepare its students, while facing challenges. Read more »

Kobe Bryant's career: By the numbers

Edson Guido, Head, ABS-CBN News Data Analytics
Updated as of Jan 28 06:31 PM

Bravo! Read more »

RCBC bank 'fighting its way back' to the top, president says

Cathy Yang, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 26 05:39 PM

Rizal Commercial Banking Corp is regaining ground, as it recovered from the fallout of a $81 million (P4.1 billion) money laundering caper, its president said Friday. Read more »

Economic indicators 3 years into Duterte presidency

Edson Guido, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 19 09:45 PM

The country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5.6 percent for the first quarter of 2019 was the lowest in 4 years, since the first quarter of 2015's 5.1 percent. It ended the 15 consecutive quarters of at least 6 percent growth. Read more »