Dear all, we're currently building a template for Zika-related articles (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Zika ), and I could imagine some of these - e.g. those on the earlier Zika outbreaks - may be useful for training the models. Cheers, Daniel
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Priedhorsky, Reid <rei...@lanl.gov> wrote: > Insufficient data in epidemiological sources. Basically, we need fairly > decent time series incidence data over a few years in order to train the > models; this isn’t available for Zika, just case reports here and there. > > The expert on our team is Ashlynn Daughton: “[T]here’s been a small amount > of surveillance of Zika > (http://www.eurosurveillance.org/images/dynamic/ET/V19N02/V19N02.pdf). > French polynesia and other islands had an outbreak in 2013 and it sounds > like there are *some* reports (pg. 50). There’s also sporadic mentions of > imported Zika from travelers from Africa or Asia (e.g. See pg 54). But there > hasn’t been anything as systematic, or comprehensive as there is now.” > > HTH, > Reid > > On Feb 19, 2016, at 10:29 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > Thanks, Reid. When you say there's insufficient data history, do you mean > in other sources? Zika was discovered in 1947 and the wiki page for it was > built in 2009. We have high quality geolocated data since May 2015. > > I'm still doing research (I admit the distractions at the foundation have > gotten in the way, I apologize for that). I hope to get back to it with > renewed force this weekend. > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Priedhorsky, Reid <rei...@lanl.gov> wrote: >> >> We do have more work in progress to extend the 2014 paper, in particular >> to mosquito-borne diseases in a Spanish-speaking country, though not Zika >> because there is insufficient data history. >> >> I appreciate the pointer. Are there any specific questions folks would >> like me to address in this thread? >> >> Thanks, >> Reid >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata