HealthMap

HealthMap

A healthmap is a website that collects and presents information related to health, such as disease outbreaks, using various algorithms and data sources. The website HealthMap is an example of such a platform that provides data on health-related events, including the Ebola outbreak, which can be analyzed using different algorithms.From: Social Computing and Virtual Communities [2019], Analysis of the Ebola Outbreak in 2014 and 2018 in West Africa and Congo by Using Artificial Adaptive Systems [2020]

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Published in Terry A. Slocum, Robert B. McMaster, Fritz C. Kessler, Hugh H. Howard, Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization, 2022

Terry A. Slocum, Robert B. McMaster, Fritz C. Kessler, Hugh H. Howard

The second characteristic of Web 2.0 is lightweight programming models that enable the creation of map mashups by combining geographic data from one source with a map from another source. For example, HealthMap uses data feeds from sources like the World Health Organization and others to plot disease outbreaks on an interactive world map (healthmap.org/en/).7 The third characteristic of Web 2.0 is the ability to work with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Although such social media sites may not seem relevant to cartography, geographers, and other social scientists often analyze and map the character of such social media content. For instance, Mapbox allows users to map geotagged tweets from Twitter accounts (mapbox.com/blog/twitter-map-every-tweet/).

Analysis of the Ebola Outbreak in 2014 and 2018 in West Africa and Congo by Using Artificial Adaptive Systems

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Published in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2020

Massimo Buscema, Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi, Weldon Lodwick, Alphonse Nde Nembot, Alvin Bronstein, Francis Newman

The Ebola dataset from the HealthMap included 83 locations (Table 2) from western Africa monitored for a period of 32 weeks (from March 4 to October 4, 2014). The number of new Ebola-infected persons was recorded every week for each city. Notice that the number of confirmed cases in seven locations is zero. We consider any error in the data as noise that can occur with real data.

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Analysis of the Ebola Outbreak in 2014 and 2018 in West Africa and Congo by Using Artificial Adaptive Systems