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News, findings, and musings from the team
Alerting Systems are Incompatible with Modern Public Health Data Monitoring
Bridging the gap with FlaSH Insights from public health data can keep communities safe. However, identifying these insights in large volumes of modern …
By Ananya Joshi
Introducing FlaSH, Part 1: Meet the Team
Delphi’s FlaSH group works to alert experts about data that suggests quality issues or changes in disease dynamics from the millions of data …
By Ananya Joshi, Nolan Gormley, Richa Gadgil, Tina Townes
Identifying Changing Variant Behavior during a Pandemic: An Exploratory Analysis
We use changepoint detection algorithms to analyze Delphi’s indicators and classify them as early, on-time, late, undefined, or undetermined.
#epidata #changepoint analysis #early indicators
By Tara Lakdawala, Ananya Joshi
New package released! Epidatr, an R client for Delphi Epidata API
epidatr is designed to streamline the downloading and usage of data from the Delphi Epidata API. It provides a simple R interface to the API, …
By Dmitry Shemetov, David Weber
COVIDcast Fault Patch: JHU-CSSE is_latest Data
In August 2022, the Delphi team discovered a fault in the data that we were sending through the COVIDcast API. The fault caused the API to return past …
By Nolan Gormley
Introducing Epidata v4
Epidata v0.4.0 (“v4” for short) launched on September 26, 2022, bringing about a major revision to how we store data served by the Epidata …
By Kathryn Mazaitis, Brian Clark, George Haff
On the Predictability of COVID-19
An analysis of coverage and accuracy of the COVID-19 Forecast Hub ensemble model shows that cases, hospitalizations, and deaths exhibit different …
By Nicholas Reich, Ryan Tibshirani, Evan Ray, Roni Rosenfeld
COVID Vaccination Trends Among the Hispanic Community in the United States
Data from the Symptom Survey show vaccine hesitancy and obstacles to vaccination for Hispanic adults across the United States.
#COVIDcast #symptom surveys #vaccine
By Alex Reinhart, Esther Kim, Sarah LaRocca, Katherine Morris
Vaccine Hesitancy and the J&J Vaccine Suspension
Did the suspension of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine increase vaccine hesitancy in the United States?
#COVIDcast #symptom surveys #vaccine
By Alex Reinhart
Cases2Beds: A Case Study in Actionable Intelligence
In partnership with the Allegheny County Health Department, we explored solutions to pressing challenges during the pandemic.
#hospital utilization #actionable intelligence #Excel #Allegheny County
By Ananya Joshi, Roni Rosenfeld, and Chris Scott