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ChatterGrabber: A Lightweight Easy to Use Social Media Surveillance Toolkit
Content Type: Abstract
Despite numerous successes in using social media to detect food borne illness and to predict influenza trends, the use of social media as a public health tool has yet to gain widespread adoption. While social media data cannot directly diagnose… read more… A Lightweight Easy to Use Social Media Surveillance Toolkit … -
in silico Surveillance: Informing Surveillance with Simulation
Content Type: Webinar
Simulations of infectious disease spread have increasingly been used to inform public policy for planning and response to outbreaks. As these techniques have increased in sophistication a wider array of uses becomes appropriate. In particular,… read more… with scan statistics, etc. (SaTScan a popular free toolkit) Problem: Find Real Outbreak in ILI Noise Proportion …