(Part 1) DIY Machine Learning Plattform - Intro & Pipelines

Introduction

In my day job I have the privilege of building and deploying machine learning (ML) solutions for a large company using state of the art cloud technologies. While extremely powerful and versatile, the effort to serve such ML-models in a scalable, realiable and repoducible way is quite high and incorporating new technologies and architectural solutions into existing software stacks requires significant time and effort.

Impact of contact reduction on COVID-19 spreading (Germany)

Contact reductions are one of the most effective Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) in the context of handling the COVID-19 pandemic. I was wondering how a reduction of average contacts impacts the reproduction number of COVID-19 in Germany so I combined contact data and official data about the reproduction number and created the correlation plot below.