Community Show and Tell - Recent work and ideas

On Wednesday the 6th of August at 3pm UK time, we’re hosting a casual community show and tell session instead of our regular seminar format.

This will be a relaxed discussion where community members can share what they’ve been working on recently, present new ideas, and demonstrate ongoing projects. Feel free to bring a few slides if you wish, but this is entirely optional.

Example topics for discussion

Sam Abbott will be sharing some recent ideas he’s been exploring:

CensoredDistributions.jl - A Julia package developed during the 2024 Epistorm Rt collaborathon for handling censored distributions in outbreak data. The package addresses three types of censoring common in epidemiological data: primary event censoring, interval censoring, and double interval censoring. It integrates with Distributions.jl and Turing.jl, using Julia’s multiple dispatch for flexible distribution handling.

Baseball stats, model cards, and forecasting performance - An exploration of model evaluation frameworks and ensemble modelling approaches, examining how to distinguish individual model value from ensemble value and addressing challenges in ensemble model weighting.

A basket of baselines - A concept for creating standardised baseline forecast models from different perspectives (time series expert, infectious disease specialist, etc.) to serve as reference points for understanding and comparing more complex forecasting approaches.

Format

This session is designed to be interactive and collaborative. All community members are encouraged to share their recent work, interesting problems they’re tackling, or new methodological ideas. The focus is on fostering discussion and knowledge sharing across the community.

A recording of this session will be posted to our YouTube channel and asynchronous discussion will be possible on our community site. You can also contribute topics or ask questions ahead of time and asynchronously there.

Connect to seminars

You can sign up for our event calendar here: Google calendar

Or here for non-Google calendar users: ICAL link

Or just join seminars directly here: https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/8290218109

To get an email with details of community meetings you can sign up to our community forum and watch (using the bell on the top right) the Meeting category.

More details about this seminar series are available here.