no code implementations • 4 Oct 2022 • Sharon Okwako, Irene Wanyana, Alice Namale, Betty Kivumbi Nannyonga, Sekou L. Remy, William Ogallo, Susan Kizito, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Rhoda Wanyenze
The COVID-19 crisis has emphasized the need for scientific methods such as machine learning to speed up the discovery of solutions to the pandemic.
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2022 • Julian Kuehnert, Deborah McGlynn, Sekou L. Remy, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Anne Jones
Seasonal ensembles forecasts of temperature and precipitation with a 6-month horizon are propagated through the model, predicting the distribution of transmission time series.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2022 • Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, William Ogallo, Catherine Wanjiru, Charles Wachira, Isaiah Onando Mulang', Vibha Anand, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Skyler Speakman
However, there is a common lack of a principled and scalable feature selection method for efficient discovery.
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2021 • Isaiah Onando Mulang', William Ogallo, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Aisha Walcott-Bryant
Analyzing the behaviour of a population in response to disease and interventions is critical to unearth variability in healthcare as well as understand sub-populations that require specialized attention, but also to assist in designing future interventions.
no code implementations • 5 Nov 2021 • Catherine Wanjiru, William Ogallo, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Charles Wachira, Isaiah Onando Mulang', Aisha Walcott-Bryant
The pipeline included three types of feature selection techniques; Filters, Wrappers and Embedded methods to select the top K features.
no code implementations • 5 Nov 2021 • Sekou L Remy, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Nelson K Bore, Charles M Wachira, Julian Kuenhert
In popular usage, Data Gravity refers to the ability of a body of data to attract applications, services and other data.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2020 • Parthasarathy Suryanarayanan, Ching-Huei Tsou, Ananya Poddar, Diwakar Mahajan, Bharath Dandala, Piyush Madan, Anshul Agrawal, Charles Wachira, Osebe Mogaka Samuel, Osnat Bar-Shira, Clifton Kipchirchir, Sharon Okwako, William Ogallo, Fred Otieno, Timothy Nyota, Fiona Matu, Vesna Resende Barros, Daniel Shats, Oren Kagan, Sekou Remy, Oliver Bent, Pooja Guhan, Shilpa Mahatma, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Divya Pathak, Michal Rosen-Zvi
We present the Worldwide Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Tracker for COVID-19 (WNTRAC), a comprehensive dataset consisting of over 6, 000 NPIs implemented worldwide since the start of the pandemic.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2017 • Oliver Bent, Sekou L. Remy, Stephen Roberts, Aisha Walcott-Bryant
The task of decision-making under uncertainty is daunting, especially for problems which have significant complexity.