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Written by hedwyg on 2025-01-19 at 15:10

It's been a frustrating week for my health informatics project. I have to create a dashboard and write a paper about it. The previous paper was a research question to guide this, and I proposed looking at mosquito counts and dengue infections. Unfortunately, I just didn't find good data for both in the same locality for the same time period and for free.

So I thought I'd pivot to weather - maybe temperature and precipitation. But hoo boy, are weather datasets big and complicated! ...

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Written by hedwyg on 2025-01-19 at 15:13

Meanwhile, I found that the dengue case counts published by the Virginia Department of Health are larger than the case counts the CDC has in the national notifiable disease data for Virginia. But the VDH website only has yearly numbers while the CDC numbers are weekly.

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Written by hedwyg on 2025-01-19 at 15:14

Meanwhile, this paper is due tonight, and I have been frustrated trying to figure out what to put on this dashboard. I'd love to have a list of the most recent cases reported by the local health districts, but "the year of 2024" isn't really "recent."

Sigh.

I'm not really asking for ideas right now, since I'll dig about some more in the data to see what I can find. But GAH!!!

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Written by hedwyg on 2025-01-19 at 15:14

After all of this, I am SO INCREDIBLY GLAD that tomorrow is a holiday at work!!!

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