Tutorial

This tutorial will take you through most aspects of running, understanding, analysing and customising metawards. The tutorial is designed to be run through in order.

Warning

This tutorial models a completely fictional disease called the lurgy. Any similarity to any real diseases is unintended, and the results or outputs from this tutorial should not be used to infer or imply anything about any real outbreak.

• Part 1 - Modelling outbreaks
  • Getting Started
  • Multiple model runs
  • Plotting outputs
• Part 2 - Refining the model
  • Refining the disease model
  • Adjustable Variables
  • Analysing the output
  • Running on a cluster
  • Refining the model
  • Model data
• Part 3 - Customising the outbreak
  • How a day is modelled
  • Where is the weekend?
  • Custom advance functions
  • Responding to changing conditions
  • Custom variables
  • Scanning lockdown
• Part 4 - Customising the output
  • Custom extractors
  • Accumulating into a Workspace
  • Extracting by location
• Part 5 - Modelling multiple demographics
  • Multi-demographic sub-networks
  • Mixers and Merge-functions
  • Using custom merge functions to model shielding
• Part 6 - Moving between demographics
  • Movers and go functions
  • Self-isolation duration
  • How many days of self-isolation is needed?
  • Conditional Compliance
  • Staying under quarantine