Wednesday 5 November 2014

How can Google better predict flu trends? With a little fudging.

"Scientists combined historic flu levels as reported by the CDC with Google Flu Trends data using an algorithmic framework which is able to adapt to changes in human search behaviour. Their results show that Google Flu Trends data sets significantly add information to the forecasts of current flu levels."

http://m.slashdot.org/story/209307

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