InSight Net Session

This guide is being developed collaboratively through the InSight Net nowcasting strike team. An initial working session brings together public health practitioners and modellers to identify shared challenges and inform the guide’s content.

Session overview

The session (~90 minutes) has three parts.

Challenges in real-time surveillance data (~40 minutes)

Surveillance data used in real time face several common challenges: reporting delays, data revisions, site drop-in and drop-out, and other data quality issues.

  1. Laura Jones: overview of challenges (~10 minutes)
  2. Rapid presentations from participants on their challenges (2-5 slides each, ~15 minutes)
  3. Facilitated discussion (~15 minutes)

Modelling options (~25 minutes)

What modelling approaches are available to address these challenges? Covers the range from simple adjustments through to formal statistical approaches, what data each requires, and what each gives you in return.

  1. Sam Abbott: overview of modelling options (~10 minutes)
  2. Rapid presentations from participants on their models or tools (2-5 slides each, ~15 minutes)

Choosing a modelling approach (~20 minutes)

Group session working through how to choose between approaches for different challenge and data scenarios. The output will help inform the interactive decision tree.

Materials

Overview slides

  • Challenges overview slides (Laura Jones) — link TBD
  • Modelling options overview slides (Sam Abbott) — link TBD

Rapid presentation templates

Session documents