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[Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Would be great if we could somehow combine the logic and calculations of
the surveillance rules with the analytics tables and make this data
available in the analysis tools. Sounds like a good approach to try that in
an app first.

Ola
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On 5 December 2013 14:53, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks a lot, Jim.
>
> We are in fact already developing a powerful time series app for which
> this is the main missing thing, however we may have to change to a
> different javascript graphing library (because of the license).
>
> Knut
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Jim Grace <jimgrace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> By all means tell anyone requesting this type of analysis about the new
>> surveillance-type validation rules. They do exactly this type of analysis,
>> for example the calculation Knut mentioned, comparing this year's weekly
>> data with the average of the three previous years (e.g. week 48),
>> multiplied by 1.5. Surveillance rule features also include:
>>
>> - You can average not only just over the same period in a number of
>> previous years, but over a bounded set of weeks surrounding the week in
>> question, or a combination of both (e.g. comparing week 48 this year with
>> the average of weeks 47,48 and 49 in the previous two years, and week 47
>> this year.)
>>
>> - You can throw out a configurable number of high and/or low outliers
>> from previous data before doing the average, so you're not comparing the
>> new data data against previous outbreaks and/or unusually low values.
>>
>> - You can analyze the data automatically as it comes in from data entry
>> each day, for any data elements (singly or in a formula) in all
>> organisation units at whatever levels you like, with customized formulas at
>> each different organizational unit level (e.g. an alarming district-wide
>> increase may be a lower percent than what could be random variation at
>> individual sites.) And be notified automatically through DHIS messaging (by
>> email if you like) of any outliers.
>>
>> If they want the data for display, this would have to be added whether in
>> the visualizer or a new app. But if they want the data for outbreak
>> detection, by all means also tell them about the new surveillance rules.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Bram Piot <bram.piot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Surprisingly, yesterday I had exactly the same request from one of our
>>> users in Uganda: they'd like to see monthly data for current and past year
>>> as separate lines on the same chart, very similar to Knut's example. I can
>>> imagine that this would be rather complex to handle in the visualiser -
>>> maybe this needs a separate app?
>>>
>>> bram piot
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5 December 2013 10:08, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Ola, it's a good idea to have this also available as part of
>>>> validation rules. However, my immediate need and what organizations dealing
>>>> with seasonal epidemics such as WHO and CDC would like to see are charts
>>>> with two lines:
>>>>
>>>> The trend of cases and deaths for the current year as compared to the
>>>> trend lines for a) the previous year or b) some kind of average for several
>>>> previous years. See the attached example.
>>>>
>>>> Knut
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, December 5, 2013, Ola Hodne Titlestad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Knut,
>>>>>
>>>>> Your example looks more like the kind of functionality we have/could
>>>>> build into in surveillance type validation rules.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ola
>>>>> ------
>>>>> On 4 Dec 2013 22:07, "Knut Staring" <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We have the same requirement, in our case to compare this year's
>>>>>> weekly data with the average of the three previous years foe the
>>>>>> corresponding periods (e.g. week 48), multiplied by 1.5. Perhaps this
>>>>>> should be available in the indicator calculation? And/or an easy way to get
>>>>>> it through the api. Could you start on a Blueprint for this?
>>>>>> 4. des. 2013 20:46 skrev "Paulo Grácio" <pgracio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> følgende:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One of the challenges that I have at the moment is the creation of
>>>>>>> an indicator based on homologous period to have evolution. Any
>>>>>>> idea/suggestion?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For instance get Malaria deaths for period (2013) and Malaria deaths
>>>>>>> for period-1 (2012).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paulo Grácio
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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