[Vp-integration-subgroup] Another case study of model integration

[William Waites]

Holy crow. Wow. Ok, I can see why you want it ;)

The individual data seems to be linked to the Singapore Ministry of Health, but pages that return a 404. 

I can’t see an ethics panel approving the use of this data even if the Upcode Academy guy puts a license on it.

If I wanted to make sure this was kosher, I would approach the MoH. I’ve asked at work (CMMID) if anyone has a contact there and will let you know off-list if anything turns up.

Cheers,
-w

> On 30 Mar 2021, at 20:32, LUCAS BOETTCHER <lucasb at g.ucla.edu> wrote:
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> Just a brief note on "what's special about this data source": You can find lots of individual case data at https://co.vid19.sg/singapore/cases/search (about 7,000 tracked cases). In the beginning of the outbreak, they also monitored the time between symptom onset and recovery for many patients. And, I also remember that they made some network contact data available (it just takes a while to load these graphs). All these features could be quite relevant for modeling projects.
> 
> Best
> 
> Lucas
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> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 8:47 PM William Waites <wwaites at ieee.org> wrote:
> > 2. Determine that Recovery / incubation models cannot be reused currently since the data source that made the data available is not responding and did not specify usage terms. I asked assistance from this mailing list to contact the entity responsible for the data in this message: https://lists.simtk.org/pipermail/vp-integration-subgroup/2021-March/000043.html  
> > If you can help, please respond.
> 
> It doesn’t look like Upcode Academy is actually the source of the data — it’s some guy running a website and an on-line software development business, who also wants to sell you a dashboard for "your country". I think he must be getting the data from elsewhere.
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> What is special about this particular data source? Can you describe it specifically?
> 
> (Generic point: for each data source, describe it properly, annotate it with metadata… Do we need a data catalogue? This will come up repeatedly.)
> 
> Note that for academic work, though fair use rules vary throughout the world and we might not have to worry so much about copyright, we do typically have to worry about ethics, privacy, consent, etc. This is data about people after all. Depending on what’s in it, that may need to be considered.
> 
> Cheers,
> -w
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