About the Authors

Samuel V. Scarpino

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Marine & Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy

James G. Scott

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Rosalind M. Eggo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Bruce Clements

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pediatric Healthcare Connection, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Nedialko B. Dimitrov

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Operations Research, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Lauren Ancel Meyers

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

laurenmeyers@austin.utexas.edu

Affiliations Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.