InterWeb Outbreak Surveillance and Progress Monitoring

Project Repository Edit

Project Themes:

  • Outbreak Monitoring and Tracking

Team Name: Waiting for Gadot

Team Lead(s):

Suggested Team Members and Roles [4-6 members]

NameAffiliationRole / Expertise
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Project Summary

Goals and Objectives

  • Goal 1: Identify sources and APIs for pulling data by date, i.e., google search statistics, xweets, facebook, google scholar, news, case reports, CDC, WHO
  • Goal 2: Define report data expected and reporting format
  • Goal 3: Prototype summary and extraction workflow for relevant outbreak data

Approach

  • Text extraction, text chunking, figure parsing, tabular data processing, APIs
  • Prototype of reporting tool

Data and Resources Required

Resource TypeSource / LinkDescription / Purpose
DataInternet (Broad), Social mediaData mining for infection data
Tools / ServicesAPIs to all major data services (might need to set up before hand)Data mining
LLMs / AI ModelsFireCrawl, OpenAI, Claude, GeminiData extraction and summary
Compute / Storage<1TB for prototypeStore downloaded files and extracted (cleaned) data

Expected Outcomes / Deliverables

  • Prototype of outbreak tracking with outcome

Potential Impact and Next Steps

  • Infectious disease research or surveillance: The project is infectious disease surveillance
  • AI/ML automation and interpretability: The project is infectious disease surveillance using AI and output in interpretable sentences
  • Public health preparedness or education: The project is infectious disease surveillance using AI and output in interpretable sentences with a mind to eventually be good enough for public health preparedness

Technical Support Needed

  • API keys (ideally set up before project start)
  • Mentor support

Additional Comments

API keys would ideally be set up before project start