But as the pandemic hit, business slowed and he spent weeks immersed in how to use data to help Covid-19 researchers. “What’s difficult about these data sets is making all the connections. All of these data sets are extraordinarily large with tens of thousands of fields, and hundreds of millions of records. “The number of things we have connected is mind-numbing.”Siebel, 67, is in a unique position to create a compendium of data sets. The effort began with 11 data sets, published in April, and expanded over time to include 32 in June.

Source: Forbes July 23, 2020 11:26 UTC