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Epistorm is pleased to announce the public release of its US Mobility Dashboard, a real-time data platform providing continuous access to mobility and behavioral dynamics in the US at different geographical resolutions: https://mobility.epistorm.org/home More information on data and indicators are available at:

Epistorm developed Epydemix, an open-source Python package for epidemic modeling with integrated approximate Bayesian calibration. The package allows users to build, simulate, and analyze stochastic compartmental epidemic models with real-world population structures and interventions. More information on Epydemix is available on the Epistorm website and published in PLOS Computational Biology. To make onboarding easier, Epistorm…

The Epistorm-Mix dataset and accompanying technical report are now publicly available. Epistorm-Mix is the first post-pandemic, probability-based survey of social contacts across all ages in the U.S. It provides privacy-preserving contact-level data and population-level contact matrices stratified by age and setting (home, work, school, community). These data are designed to help researchers and public health…

The 2024 Epistorm Rt-Estimate Collabathon in Boston brought together about 50 experts from government, industry, academia, and NGOs under the CDC’s CFA Insight Net initiative to tackle real-time epidemic growth rate estimation challenges. Over several days, participants collaborated to develop innovative tools like SummRt, set benchmarks for standardized evaluation, and built a sustainable community aimed…