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2551. SynthEco: A digital system for analyzing multi-dimensional mechanisms of human behaviour in a multi-layered and dynamic geospatial environment
Invited abstract in session MD-28: Advancements of OR-analytics in statistics, machine learning and data science 4, stream Advancements of OR-analytics in statistics, machine learning and data science.
Monday, 14:30-16:00Room: 065 (building: 208)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
1. | Antonia Gieschen
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University of Edinburgh | |
2. | Raja Sengupta
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McGill University | |
3. | Duo Zhang
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McGill University | |
4. | catherine paquet
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Marketing, Universite Laval | |
5. | Fares Belkhiria
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McGill University | |
6. | Laurette Dubé
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McGill University |
Abstract
Synthetic populations are datasets which are created to be statistically representative of a chosen population using census data. They have been used in multiple contexts where researchers are interested in modelling effects on a population or individual level, including health related agent-based models and epidemiology. The SynthEco project aims to provide a platform for researchers to create synthetic populations in the form of an open source Python package available on GitHub through an iterative proportional fitting approach. The package allows for synthetic population creation from any census data and on different geographic levels through a simple plug-in system. Plugins exists for census data from the USA and from Canada, and researchers are invited to contribute their own plugins to create other populations. The use of SynthEco will be demonstrated through several application cases in Montreal, Canada, such as modelling access to healthy food and spatial inequality in financial wellbeing. These are made possible through dataset linkage of the synthetic population with geo-referenced discovery and population cohorts.
Keywords
- Analytics and Data Science
- Decision Support Systems
- Software
Status: accepted
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