Timetable

This is the Nowcasting course, taught July 13-15 (the first half of the SISMID week, Monday through Wednesday morning). It is paired with the companion forecasting & evaluation course which runs from Wednesday midday to Friday, July 15-17.

Day	Time	Session / activity	Content
Mon 13 Jul	09.00–10.00	Session 0 · Introduction & course overview	Slides, Getting started, Course overview, Motivation
	10.00–10.30	Session 1 · Delay distributions	Slides, Practice
	10.30–11.00	Coffee break
	11.00–11.30	Session 1 · Delay distributions (cont.)
	11.30–12.30	Session 2 · Biases in delay distributions	Slides, Practice
	12.30–13.30	Lunch
	13.30–14.00	Session 2 · Biases in delay distributions (cont.)
	14.00–15:00	Session 3 · Modelling the data-generating process	Slides, Practice
	15.00–15.30	Coffee break
	15.30–17.00	Session 4 · \(R_t\) estimation & the renewal equation	Slides, Practice
Tue 14 Jul	09.00–09.15	Day 1 review
	09.15–10.30	Session 5 · Nowcasting concepts	Slides, Practice
	10.30–11.00	Coffee break
	11.00–12.30	Session 6 · Nowcasting with an unknown reporting delay	Slides, Practice
	12.30–13.30	Lunch
	13.30–15.00	Session 7 · Combining nowcasting & forecasting	Slides, Practice
	15.00–15.30	Coffee break
	15.30–17.00	Session 8 · Jointly fitting multiple data streams	Slides, Practice
Wed 15 Jul	09.00–09.15	Day 2 review
	09.15–10.30	Session 9 · Modelling complex reporting processes	Slides, Practice
	10.30–11.00	Coffee break
	11.00–12.00	Session 9 · Modelling complex reporting processes (cont.)
	12.00–12.15	Session 10 · Methods in the real world	Methods in the real world
	12.15–12.30	Session 11 · Summary & discussion	Summary, further reading