In this episode, we will be talking with Mandy Wilson and Dawen Xie about designing and maintaining multiple dashboards that serve epidemiological information to multiple stakeholders. Ranging from disease surveillance to hospital capacity and intervention management, they discuss the trials and tribulations of building these platforms and constantly improving them based on user feedback. 

Mandy Wilson is a research scientist at the NSSAC division, Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia; prior to that, she was an employee of the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech from 2008 - 2018. Wilson has had a broad range of work experiences, including custom software development for the federal government and the private sector. Her research interests include synthetic biology, modeling behavior on social media, epidemiology, database architecture, and data mining. Full bio at https://biocomplexity.virginia.edu/person/mandy-wilson

Dawen Xie is a research scientist at the NSSAC division, Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia. Xie is interested in the Geographic Information System (GIS), visual analytics, information management system, and database with a current focus on building different dynamic web systems. Full bio at https://biocomplexity.virginia.edu/person/dawen-xie