Analysis of 5 years of multi-stream surveillance and weather data in Champaign County

INDICATOR is a multi-stream open source platform for biosurveillance and outbreak detection, currently focused on Champaign County in Illinois. It has been in production since 2008 and is currently receiving data from emergency department, patient advisory nurse, outpatient convenient care clinic, school absenteeism, animal control, and weather sources. Historical data from some of these sources goes back to 2006.

Objective

To examine the correlation between different types of surveillance signals and climate information obtained from a well-defined geographic area.