Outbreak

Beyond the availability of data and methods, and the use of good practices for reproducible science, the outbreak response context poses a number of practical challenges for data analysis. In this lecture, we introduce tools which can help address some of these challenges, and create robust, efficient, and more easily deployable data analytics pipelines using R. Slides Click on the image below to access the slides: Alternatively, you can view these slides directly on google slides. ...

Motivation At which time point during an outbreak of a person-to-person transmitted disease can one declare the outbreak as having ended? Answering this question can be important in order to calm the population, re-attract tourists, stop export bans or reduce alertness status. The current WHO method for answering the above question is as follows: a period of two times the longest possible incubation time needs to pass without observing additional cases, before the outbreak can be declared as being over. ...