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Denguefeber i Pakistan

Abeliakonferansen: Big Data 2015Geoffrey S. Canright, VP Data AnalyticsKenth Engø-Monsen, Senior Data Scientist

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MD2EPTH: Mobile Data, Dengue in Pakistan; Telenor &

HarvardMD2EPTH project

• Does human mobility play a crucial role in the spreading of dengue fever? Investigate the dengue outbreak in Pakistan in 2013

• First-ever country-wide effort to understand and model the spread of dengue fever using anonymized mobility data

• Ultimate goal: design prevention strategies rooted in data-driven methods

Dengue Virus affects people worldwide

Dengue fever world-wide

Simmons CP et al. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1423-1432.

A number - Caller

IMSI: SIM cardCell_ID: Location

TAC: Handset

Type: Call, SMS, Data, etc

For each call, sms and data session: thousands of data points are stored

Date & time

B number – Receiving party

Data volume

2014.12.11

Telenor Group, Privacy, and Mobile Data

• We follow the guidelines in the Telenor Privacy Toolbox developed by the Group Privacy Officer

• In the case of Pakistan there were stricter constraints, coming from questions of national security

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Inferring mobility patterns from anonymized call data records (CDRs)

CDRs allow us to measure flows of people between regions in Pakistan

Visualizing actual human mobility patterns in Pakistan

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2013

Dengue fever in Pakistan

A few take-aways

If successful the analysis will help

predict where and when to prepare for

dengue cases

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We help solving a problem in the

society, which we believe have long-

term business value!