What is flusion?

Briefly…

f(l)usion is a data set that provides estimates for hospitalizations that resulted from influenza. The data is estimated by a joint spatiotemporal model that joins (fuses) data from FluSurv, the Influenza Like Illness (ILI) data set, the NREVSS data set, and HHS reported incidence to produce estimates. In a sense, flusion can be thought of as a historical reconstruction of past hospitalization based on signals (patterns and trends) captured in the contributing data sources.

What’s it good for?

Flusion is intended to provide a complete and continuous source of data to train and support influenza forecasting modeling. It is an analytic product to support other analytic products.

Flusion in a snapshot: Arrows represent how information is passed between data-specific submodels