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  • Text mining using tidy data principles

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented April 25, 2018. Text data is increasingly important in many domains, and tidy data principles and tidy tools can make text mining easier and more effective. I will demonstrate how we can manipulate, summarize, and visualize the… read more
    … Julia Silge , PhD, Data Scientist, Stack Overflow  Document Silge_Text_Mining.pdf View Julia Silge's blog here … rows Which words contribute to each sentiment? WHAT IS A DOCUMENT ABOUT? T I D Y T E X T TERM FREQUENCY INVERSE …
  • Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic Surveillance has been in use in New York City since 2001, with 2.5 million visits reported from 39 participating emergency departments, covering an estimated 75% of annual visits. As syndromic surveillance becomes increasingly spatial and… read more
    … with GIS can standardize and expedite results. Document … user processes provides a way to standardize analysis, document procedures and more effectively complete GIS …
  • Validation of Data from Medical Registrations in The Netherlands for Syndromic Surveillance Use: Comparing Respiratory Syndromes with Laboratory Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective To study if syndromic surveillance would have an added value over existing surveillance systems, we retrospectively evaluated whether known trends in respiratory pathogens are reflected in medical registrations in the… read more
    … Netherlands when using respiratory syndrome groupings. Document … using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance after translating the codes to the coding systems …
  • Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition

    Content Type: Abstract

    In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more
    … its ability to capture the appropriate syndromic cases. Document … derived case definition terms from the consensus document text description of smallpox and modified these …
  • Syndromic Surveillance for Detection of Increased Morbidity and Mortality by Influenza

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether a rise or shift in severe morbidity and mortality by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance.
    … by influenza can be detected with syndromic surveillance. Document … data using the CDC syn- drome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. We plotted the counts of the hospital syndrome, …
  • Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more
    … areas: process and outcome, cost/benefit and technical. Document … by the Public Health Agency of Canada [1] with additional guidance pro- vided by the Centers for Disease Control and …
  • North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps

    Content Type: Abstract

    Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more
    … diseases often emerge first and spread rapidly.2 Document … report that is the basis for this presentation5 follows guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more
    … Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … results of each report were exported into an electronic document, which was emailed to staff at the DPH. This report …