Hm :/ Well, I can't do anything about epidemiological souces, except time travel I guess :)
So, if others agree that this is a dead end, I'll downgrade it to a pet project. Daniel, let me know if I can help still. If this particular example isn't good, is there another specific case where our data might help? On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Mietchen < daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Medicine mailing list > wikimedia-medic...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine >
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