Part 1 — Sources and further reading

Accessed 27 September 2026 unless otherwise noted.

Data

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NNDSS Weekly Data. Dataset identifier x9gk-5huc.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notifiable Infectious Disease Data Tables. Explains that weekly data are provisional and annual data are finalized.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notice to Data Users and Publication Criteria.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Historic West Nile Virus Data. Describes ArboNET and limitations of surveillance data.

Methods

• Wright MN, Burk L, Golchian P, Kapar J, Koenen N, Langbein SH. Machine Learning in Epidemiology. 2026.
• mlr3 documentation.
• mlr3 custom resampling.
• Applied Machine Learning Using mlr3 in R.
• Gazzelloni F. Health Metrics and the Spread of Infectious Diseases: Machine Learning Applications and Spatial Modelling Analysis with R. CRC Press; 2025.

Dataset alternatives

• Heart Disease, UCI Machine Learning Repository.
• Ebola outbreak data collection tools, WHO.