BODY -- Buckets of Disease Symptoms for Disease Outbreak Analysis

Active day-to-day analysis of hospital record entries can help alert possible disease outbreaks. Such information could help health authorities in planning prevention and minimizing the influence of the disease outbreak. Given a set of hospital entry records of patients, we developed a toolkit named BODY to analyse the data - historical and current - to present insights into disease outbreak patterns and abnormal patterns in symptom incidences. From the analysis, we aim to predict a possible outbreak of diseases detailing symptoms, time zones and mortality rates. We illustrate BODY´s utility on the VAST 2010 Challenge Data containing hospital data entries from 11 cities across the world.