Forecasting: Principles & practice book club

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Hi all,

Updated: A few folks at LSHTM are planning on setting up a book club to review some chapters and related materials in Forecasting principles & practice. There was some interest in extending this to the broader epinowcast community.

Details:

  • cadence: monthly, on the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 16:00-17:00 GMT starting on March 11th
  • format: hybrid, in person at LSHTM with a zoom option for those remote
  • structure: open to suggestions here, but my thought was that we could use this google sheet to sign up for chapters to lead on. Whoever leads on it would be in charge of chairing the meeting, leading a discussion on the material, and, if relevant, providing related tutorials/applications/examples to promote further discussion.

We’ll start with an overview of Chapters 1-4.

The goal would be for this to be relatively informal and a safe space for asking questions, discussing related topics, and hopefully generating some ideas. Personally, despite having been in the space of ID forecasting for a few years, a lot of these traditional forecasting methods are relatively new to me, so I am hoping to gain some familiarity and a better understanding of concepts I have maybe heard of, but have rarely if ever used myself. This is open to anyone interested, no need to identify as a forecaster.

If interested, just send me an email (kaitlyn.johnson@lshtm.ac.uk) and I will add you to the calendar invite.

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Sounds great and I would be keen to be involved. Can we go earlier than the suggested time? Its outside core hours UK and very out of core hours in Europe and it would be great if we could be big tent here. For me any of those days is good in that kind of time range.

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This sounds good. Thats a good book.

Like @samabbott I’d probably prefer earlier.

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We decided to keep to 4-5 pm GMT, hope that still works for you!

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Update for all who are planning on attending on March 11th, we will be reviewing chapters 1-4. It will be hybrid, however, we have a very small room this time (which will not be the case in future months) so in person space will sadly be limited.

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