Spatial Epidemiology
We solved the question of COVID's spatial heterogeneity issue for the city of Toronto's Public Health department. The Space Time Pattern Mining tool set series provides forecasting and trends associated with increases and cooling off cases. Creation of my own fields for organizational purposes proved efficient during the seemingly daunting process of data curation in the initial phase of a project. Flipping quickly between swipe maps delivers information quickly, leading up to a discussion on the weighting scheme for a compound social indicator of risk, available from raster calculator.
Two measurable wave peaks occur between 2019 and 2021. We saw localized spatial heterogeneity among neighborhoods, with special interest to the rural communities. Background demographics support this conclusion. This spatiotemporal epidemiological study and others arm local community organizers to draft, present, and enforce accountability standards to their state and federal governments.

