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Toward the use of neural networks for influenza prediction at multiple spatial…
Toward the use of neural networks for influenza prediction at multiple spatial…
Google has made its data on search trends to do with COVID-19 symptoms public. It's thought that the data could show an uptick…
There is now some serious soul-searching in the mainstream media about their (previously) breath-taking coverage of the Big…
Some of you may remember the "Google Flu" effort, where the company was going to try to track outbreaks of influenza in the US…
Some of you may remember the "Google Flu" effort, where the company was going to try to track outbreaks of influenza in the US…
It seemed like such a good idea at the time.People with the flu (the influenza virus, that is) will probably go online to find…
The article (link) in Science about the failure of Google Flu Trends is important for many reasons. One is the inexplicable…
Image: James GathanyWikimedia CommonsBig data and crowdsourcing were (and still are, if we can fix them) supposed to tell us…
Google in blue, CDC in red. Note the dramatic divergence toward 2013. (Keith Winstein, MIT) Has Google’s much-celebrated flu…