On Sunday, 14 February 2016, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu@wikimedia.org> wrote:

We have talked in the past about releasing granular geocoded pageview data so that we may track the spread of diseases. The efforts of the Los Alamos National Lab folks to do this in a privacy sensitive way are on-going, and we have our own efforts as well, but completely solving this problem in the general case is known to be very hard.

So, I felt personally compelled in the case of Zika, and the confusing coverage it has seen, to offer to personally help. I can run queries, test hypotheses, and help publish data that could back up articles. Privacy of our editors is of course still obviously protected, but that's easier to do in a specific case with human review than in the general case.

I offer as much of my volunteer time as will get the job done, plus any of my official time that my team-mates deem appropriate (they're pretty awesome, so you probably have me double full time if you need me).