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In this 26 minute video, Eric Bakota offers an overview of a free statistical package, R, and an overview of commonly used tips and tricks shared in the surveillance community for analysis work in R.
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Overview of R and R Studio Introduction to the ‘Tidyverse’ concept (... Read moreThe French syndromic surveillance system SursaUD® has been set up by Santé publique France, the national public health agency (formerly French institute for public health - InVS) in 2004. In 2016, the system is based on three main data sources: the attendances in about 650 emergency departments... Read more
Early detection of a disease outbreak using pre-diagnostic textual data is available in biosurveillance systems with the integration of data such as chief complaints. Social media has been identified as an additional pre-diagnostic data source of interest. Textual data analysis in public health... Read more
The ESSENCE application supports users' interactive analysis of data by clicking through menus in a user interface (UI), and provides multiple types of user defined data visualization options, including various charts and graphs, tables of statistical alerts, table builder functionality, spatial... Read more
Real-time syndromic surveillance requires daily surveillance of a range of health data sources. Most real-time data sources from health care systems exhibit large day of the week fluctuations as service provision and patient behaviour varies by day of the week. Regular day of the week effects... Read more
Regional disease surveillance as well as data transparency and sharing are the global trend for mitigating the threat of infectious diseases. The WHO has already played a leading role in FluNet (http:// www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/flunet/en/ ) and DenguNet (http://www.who.int/csr/... Read more
The primary goal of the Electronic Syndromic Surveillance system (ESSS) is to monitor trends in non-specific symptoms of illness at the community level in real time. The ESSS includes emergency department chief complaint data that are categorized into eight syndromes: respiratory,... Read more
Presented May 26, 2016.
Eric Bakota will go over Hadley Wickham’s ‘ggplot2’ package using the same grammar of graphics framework outlined in Wickham’s 2010 paper on the subject. This webinar will discuss how to create a plot by looking at the components that make up its overall structure... Read more
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a serious threat to global public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than 1100 epidemic events worldwide in the last 5 years alone. Recently, the emergence of the novel 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus and the SARS... Read more
Presented May 31, 2017.
Eric Bakota will go over the results from the survey and then I’ll show a report that we generate at HHD using RMarkdown, SQL, and RODBC. This report uses RODBC to connect to our Electronic Disease Surveillance System (MAVEN) to query data needed for the report.... Read more
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