Analysis

Overview	Data Preparation	Analysis and Results

Preliminary Analysis in JMP

Due to the possibility of describing sickness in slang or terms which we are not as familiar with, the JMP text explorer was used to identify such terms through its in-built text analysis function.Terms such as those circled in red in the figure below were considered when compiling the list of symptoms to filter the posts with, in order to get more accurate results.

Also notable were its mention of a music festival and a truck accident, which we would later learn more about in our following analysis through visualisation of the data in Tableau.

Data Analysis in Tableau

Analysis of travel patterns

Comparison with content from posts

Hourly microblog feed dashboard

Strategy for target narrowing

Creating a holistic view

Proliferation of disease dashboard

Insights from Analysis

Suspicious events: Possible human to human transmission

Suspicious events: Possible wind and water transmission

Results and conclusion

Origin and channel of transmission

Deployment of emergency services