Data analysis and presentation for tick and tick-borne disease surveillance

The main objective of this project is to analyze and display data collected passively through our tick testing service. Part of our mandate as a company is to to publish tick and tick-borne disease surveillance data yearly based on data collected from ticks submitted to our laboratory for testing. This data includes spatial and temporal information about where and when ticks were encountered, what activities users were engaged in when they encountered the ticks, the types of pathogens detected in each tick, and which demographics are disproportionately affected. In previous years, this data has been analyzed and displayed using accessible tools such as Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Powerpoint) and Google MyMaps. This year, we are looking to improve the data analysis and presentation by using more powerful statistical and GIS tools. Previous examples of this work can be seen on our website at https://www.geneticks.ca/tick-testing-statistics/.