# Community Seminar 2024-08-07 - Kaitlyn Johnson - Wastewater modeling to forecast hospital admissions in the US: Challenges and opportunities

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> [@kejohnson9](#):
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> Just so I make sure I understand what you’re suggesting, would the idea be that we as a relatively small community building tools aimed at solving similar problems and producing similar types of outputs, would coalesce on say standardized ways of doing things like: specifying priors, specifying delay distributions, specifying input data, and formatting of outputs (e.g. the main wrapper function would return the same set of elements, with similar looking tooling downstream to extract posterior draws/join with data/run diagnostics/score results)?

Yes, exactly. For example, there is a similar conversation happening in EpiNow2 about restructuring the [output class](https://github.com/epiforecasts/EpiNow2/issues/451) and returning the summarised output in a [ready format for use with scoringutils](https://github.com/epiforecasts/EpiNow2/issues/618). Here, scoringutils could dictate the structure of outputs but we must be wary of tightly coupling these tools instead of making them interoperable. See a similar restructuring exercise in [serofoi](https://github.com/epiverse-trace/serofoi/issues/89).

Other standardisations could include function and input naming conventions, etc.

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