What should the early lines of code written during a new outbreak look like? We've got a new viewpoint piece in Lancet Digital Health on how to improve early outbreak analytics, with a great group of contributors: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2589-7500(24)00218-8
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From a data analysis design perspective, the requirements seem capable of being standardised. With that in place, all the code could be written and tested in advance, with a parameter for “pathogen” or similar.
In this scenario, "deployment" is usage during an outbreak.