Last month, the White House unveiled its COVID-19 Open Research Data (CORD-19) initiative, an open source, big data processing program to aid treatment and vaccine research. But, as you might expect, there is already a ton of information to sort through. By working on top of the CORD-19 data set, Verizon Media’s — formerly Yahoo — Vespa search engine is helping users, and most importantly, researchers, make sense of it all.
Yahoo began development of Vespa in 2003 with the goal to generate personalized results from large data sets at massive scale in real time, making it perfect for the task at hand.
