The lecture and tutorial are based on our work on using digital disease surveillance data to do real-time outbreak analysis. I will illustrate the challenges of generating actionable insights from disease surveillance data.
Our motivating example comes from the 2013–2016 West African Ebola epidemic. We will use two Ebola data sets:
- curated ProMED and HealthMap records on the human cases of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa;
- West African Ebola incidence data collated by the WHO during the epidemic. We will use a ``clean'' version of this data that was made available here, ~1 year after the end of the pandemic.