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Google Flu Trends: Track the Spread of Influenza in Your State
- Anon84 18y agoDupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=361040 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=361040
- albertcardona 18y agoUnfortunately, the information is after-the-fact.
- streety 18y agohttp://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html "So why bother with estimates from aggregated search queries? It turns out that traditional flu surveillance systems take 1-2 weeks to collect and release surveillance data, but Google search queries can be automatically counted very quickly. By making our flu estimates available each day, Google Flu Trends may provide an early-warning system for outbreaks of influenza." Sounds as though it could still be useful. Not that there is much you can do in response.
- ntoshev 18y agoMonitoring social trends this way is very cool. I wonder if they could help predict things like consumer confidence index similarly.