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.