I pointed Reid and his team to this thread. On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:07 AM, Alex Druk <alex.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My 2¢: http://www.wikipediatrends.com/predictions/Medicine/Zika_virus/ > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> This makes a lot of sense, I'll get started on looking for correlation >> between that time-line and geolocated interest coming in through the >> different language wikis. >> >> Original Message >> From: Daniel Mietchen >> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 02:28 >> To: Wiki Medicine discussion >> Reply To: Wiki Medicine discussion >> Cc: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an >> interest in Wikipedia and analytics.; Discussion list for the Wikidata >> project. >> Subject: Re: [Wiki-Medicine] [Analytics] Zika >> >> The link to microcephaly has become clearer this week: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zika_virus&oldid=704879995#cite_ref-11 >> states "A complete ZIKV genome sequence [..] was recovered from brain >> tissue" (of a fetus whose mother had been infected with Zika virus). >> >> Given that the mass media are currently all over Zika, simple page >> view stats are essentially useless for tracking the spread of the >> disease - the PLOS Computational Biology article that Anthony has >> linked states "Wikipedia data have a variety of instabilities that >> need to be understood and compensated for. For example, Wikipedia >> shares many of the problems of other internet data, such as highly >> variable interest-driven traffic caused by news reporting and other >> sources." >> >> However, correlating geolocated view stats or searches with external info >> like >> http://www.healthmap.org/zika/#timeline >> might be useful. >> >> In addition, if we had some representation of clickstreams for >> Zika-related articles in languages spoken in affected areas, this >> could help guide the development of Zika-related content in those >> languages. >> >> Beyond Wikipedia, there is a page on Wikidata to coordinate activities >> around Zika: >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/Zika . >> >> Cheers, >> d. >> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hey Dan, >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 3:02 AM, Dan Andreescu < >> dandree...@wikimedia.org> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> >> >>> So, I felt personally compelled in the case of Zika, and the confusing >> >>> coverage it has seen, to offer to personally help. >> >> >> >> >> >> Which aspect of the coverage are you referring to as confusing? >> > >> > >> > Well, so the first reports were that 3500 cases of microcephaly were >> linked >> > to Zika in Brazil, since October. If you do the math, with Brazil's >> birth >> > rate of 300,000 per year, 3500 for three months is incredibly high. The >> > number went up to 4400 before it was discredited and the latest I read >> is >> > that it's down to 404 [1] and there are claims of over-inflation. That >> same >> > article talks about serious doubts that Zika even has anything to do >> with >> > microcephaly. In reading around some more about the subject, it seems >> like >> > a multi-variate analysis gone wrong. >> > >> >> >> >> >> >>> >> >>> I can run queries, test hypotheses, and help publish data that could >> back >> >>> up articles. Privacy of our editors is of course still obviously >> protected, >> >>> but that's easier to do in a specific case with human review than in >> the >> >>> general case. >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm up for brainstorming about what we can do and helping. Please keep >> me >> >> in the loop. In general, given that a big chunk of our traffic comes >> from >> >> Google at the moment, it would be great to work with the researchers in >> >> Google involved in Google's health related initiatives to produce >> >> complementary knowledge to what Google can already tell about Zika (for >> >> example, this). I'll reach out to the few people I know to get some >> more >> >> information. >> >> Depending on what complementary knowledge we want to produce, working >> with >> >> WikiProject Medicine can be helpful, too. >> > >> > >> > Cool, yeah, I'm nowhere close to knowledgeable on this, I can data-dog >> > though :) >> > >> > >> > [1] www.cbc.ca/news/health/microcephaly-brazil-zika-reality-1.3442580 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-Medicine mailing list >> > wikimedia-medic...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-Medicine mailing list >> wikimedia-medic...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> > > > > -- > Thank you. > > Alex Druk > alex.d...@gmail.com > (775) 237-8550 Google voice > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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