My 2ยข: http://www.wikipediatrends.com/predictions/Medicine/Zika_virus/
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > This makes a lot of sense, I'll get started on looking for correlation > between that time-line and geolocated interest coming in through the > different language wikis. > > Original Message > From: Daniel Mietchen > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 02:28 > To: Wiki Medicine discussion > Reply To: Wiki Medicine discussion > Cc: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an > interest in Wikipedia and analytics.; Discussion list for the Wikidata > project. > Subject: Re: [Wiki-Medicine] [Analytics] Zika > > The link to microcephaly has become clearer this week: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zika_virus&oldid=704879995#cite_ref-11 > states "A complete ZIKV genome sequence [..] was recovered from brain > tissue" (of a fetus whose mother had been infected with Zika virus). > > Given that the mass media are currently all over Zika, simple page > view stats are essentially useless for tracking the spread of the > disease - the PLOS Computational Biology article that Anthony has > linked states "Wikipedia data have a variety of instabilities that > need to be understood and compensated for. For example, Wikipedia > shares many of the problems of other internet data, such as highly > variable interest-driven traffic caused by news reporting and other > sources." > > However, correlating geolocated view stats or searches with external info > like > http://www.healthmap.org/zika/#timeline > might be useful. > > In addition, if we had some representation of clickstreams for > Zika-related articles in languages spoken in affected areas, this > could help guide the development of Zika-related content in those > languages. > > Beyond Wikipedia, there is a page on Wikidata to coordinate activities > around Zika: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/Zika . > > Cheers, > d. > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hey Dan, > >> > >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 3:02 AM, Dan Andreescu < > [email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> So, I felt personally compelled in the case of Zika, and the confusing > >>> coverage it has seen, to offer to personally help. > >> > >> > >> Which aspect of the coverage are you referring to as confusing? > > > > > > Well, so the first reports were that 3500 cases of microcephaly were > linked > > to Zika in Brazil, since October. If you do the math, with Brazil's birth > > rate of 300,000 per year, 3500 for three months is incredibly high. The > > number went up to 4400 before it was discredited and the latest I read is > > that it's down to 404 [1] and there are claims of over-inflation. That > same > > article talks about serious doubts that Zika even has anything to do with > > microcephaly. In reading around some more about the subject, it seems > like > > a multi-variate analysis gone wrong. > > > >> > >> > >>> > >>> I can run queries, test hypotheses, and help publish data that could > back > >>> up articles. Privacy of our editors is of course still obviously > protected, > >>> but that's easier to do in a specific case with human review than in > the > >>> general case. > >> > >> > >> I'm up for brainstorming about what we can do and helping. Please keep > me > >> in the loop. In general, given that a big chunk of our traffic comes > from > >> Google at the moment, it would be great to work with the researchers in > >> Google involved in Google's health related initiatives to produce > >> complementary knowledge to what Google can already tell about Zika (for > >> example, this). I'll reach out to the few people I know to get some more > >> information. > >> Depending on what complementary knowledge we want to produce, working > with > >> WikiProject Medicine can be helpful, too. > > > > > > Cool, yeah, I'm nowhere close to knowledgeable on this, I can data-dog > > though :) > > > > > > [1] www.cbc.ca/news/health/microcephaly-brazil-zika-reality-1.3442580 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Medicine mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Medicine mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- Thank you. Alex Druk [email protected] (775) 237-8550 Google voice
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