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News, findings, and musings from the team

Jan 1
Alerting Systems are Incompatible with Modern Public Health Data Monitoring

Alerting Systems are Incompatible with Modern Public Health Data Monitoring

Insights from public health data can keep communities safe. However, identifying these insights in large volumes of …

#flash

By Ananya Joshi

Jan 1
Introducing FlaSH, Part 1: Meet the Team

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 …

#flash

By Ananya Joshi, Nolan Gormley, Richa Gadgil, Tina Townes

Dec 20
Identifying Changing Variant Behavior during a Pandemic: An Exploratory Analysis

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

Sep 27
New package released! Epidatr, an R client for Delphi Epidata API

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, …

#r #epidata #covidcast

By Dmitry Shemetov, David Weber

Apr 1
COVIDcast Fault Patch: JHU-CSSE is_latest Data

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 …

#COVIDcast

By Nolan Gormley

Dec 14
Introducing Epidata v4

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 …

#epidata

By Kathryn Mazaitis, Brian Clark, George Haff

Sep 30
On the Predictability of COVID-19

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 …

#forecasting #R

By Nicholas Reich, Ryan Tibshirani, Evan Ray, Roni Rosenfeld

Apr 29
COVID Vaccination Trends Among the Hispanic Community in the United States

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

Apr 23
Vaccine Hesitancy and the J&J Vaccine Suspension

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

Mar 10
Cases2Beds: A Case Study in Actionable Intelligence

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