News from the Delphi Team

We’ve welcomed 13 Google Fellows to Delphi and are excited to have them on board.

We launched our COVIDcast system, which displays indicators related to COVID-19 activity level across the U.S. These indicators are derived from a variety of anonymized, aggregated data sources made available by multiple partners, and are publicly available at the COVIDcast endpoint of our Epidata API.

Related news articles:

• Carnegie Mellon Unveils Five Interactive COVID-19 Maps
• Self-reported COVID-19 Symptoms Show Promise for Disease Forecasts
• Facebook and Carnegie Mellon Team Up to Gather COVID-19 Symptom Data

We are focusing our efforts at this point on COVID-19 nowcasting and forecasting. We are adapting our existing systems, and developing new ones. Some of our regular activities may be halted as a result.

CDC has just named us “National Center of Excellence for Influenza Forecasting” (one of two nationally.)

and yet again! Our forecasting systems took the top spot each of the three separate flu forecasting challenges of 2017-2018 (out of up to 30 submissions). (Results summary.)

We did it again! Our two systems took the top two spots in the 2016-2017 flu forecasting challenge (out of 28 submissions). (Results summary.)

system took the top spot in the 2015-2016 flu forecasting challenge. (Results summary.)