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  • A Visual Analytics Toolkit for Evaluating Potential Syndromic Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    Our toolkit adds statistical trend analysis, interactive plots, and kernel density estimation to an existing spatio-temporal visualization platform. The goal of these tools is to provide both a quick assessment of the current… read more
    … Our toolkit adds statistical trend analysis, interactive plots, … statistically significant. The sample data used for this toolkit come from over 70 emergency rooms throughout the …
  • An Open Source Web Services Toolkit for Event Detection Algorithms

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    As major disease outbreaks are rare, empirical evaluation of statistical methods for outbreak detection requires the use of modified or completely simulated health event data in addition to real data. Comparisons of different techniques will be more… read more
    … and real data. To this end, we are developing a toolkit for implementing and evaluating outbreak detection … via a web services interface. An_Open_Source_Web_Services_Toolkit_For_Event_Detection_Algorithms.pdf Submitted by …
  • Interactive Detection of Spatial Clusters

    Content Type: Abstract

    Geographic visualization methods allow analysts to visually discover clusters in multivariate, spatially-referenced data. Computational and statistical cluster detection techniques can automatically detect spatial clusters of high values of a… read more
    … complementary; and present an integration of the GeoViz Toolkit and Proclude software suites as proof-of-concept. … [4]. Figure 1 – Integration of Proclude and the GeoViz Toolkit. Here, a selection was made in the histogram, and …
  • Making One Health Operational – the One Health Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource ToolkitTM

    Content Type: Webinar

    Over the last decade, the One Health approach has gained support as a valuable way to address complex issues at the interface of humans, animals, and the environment.  Moving from theory to application is more challenging, though, and experts… read more
    … The One Health Systems Mapping and Analysis Resource Toolkit (OH-SMART) was co-developed by the University of … Dr. Dutcher will provide an overview of the OH SMART TM  toolkit and describe outcomes from recent …
  • Cloud Computing for Syndromic Surveillance

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    Two significant barriers to greater use of syndromic surveillance techniques are computational time and software complexity. Computational time refers to the time for many methods (for example, scan statistics and AMOEBA statistics) to create… read more
    … machines, or images, for the public to use. The GeoViz Toolkit was one of the software packages delivered in this … implied. References 1. Hardisty F, Robinson A. The GeoViz Toolkit: using component- oriented coordination methods to … The spatiotemporal clustering algorithms in the GeoViz Toolkit, as well as the multiple view visualizations, are …
  • Data Visualization for Health Surveillance: Current Concepts and New Horizons

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Wayne Loschen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) Karl Soetebier, MPW, Georgia Division of Public Health Paul Picciano, PhD,… read more
    … Concepts and New Horizons 23 September 2009 The GeoViz Toolkit: An easy-to-use approach to ESDA Frank Hardisty …
  • Placing surveillance in a preparedness business process framework

    Content Type: Abstract

    Most public health workers could reach agreement on the general functions and operations regarding public health’s traditional operations, such as food safety inspections, outbreak investigations, or immunization clinics. However, there is much less… read more
    … N. PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza: A Quality Improvement Toolkit; RAND Health; 2008:217. Preparedness business …
  • The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the NSW Public Health Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance System operating in and around Sydney, Australia signalled a large-scale increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal illness (GI). A subsequent… read more
    … surveillance to the routine public health surveillance toolkit. The proportion of outbreaks with a known organism …