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Joe Google Flu Trends is pretty good at tracking geo-mapped disease trends. They track all related queries (symptoms, drugs, treatments etc). Take a look at the
by umar_saif 14y ago
Joe Google Flu Trends is pretty good at tracking geo-mapped disease trends. They track all related queries (symptoms, drugs, treatments etc). Take a look at the nature paper they wrote in 2008: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7232/full/nature07634.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7232/full/nature0... . The trend are fairly nicely correlated with CDC data. Our system takes these trends and convert them into epidemic alerts.
- Pwnguinz 14y agoSupposedly, San Francisco has reached "Epidemic" scale in flu outbreaks... How is that categorized? What's considered an epidemic? I live in San Francisco and have yet to notice any peers with the flu.
- mansoorpervaiz 14y agoHi, the whole point of the system is to determine early if there is an outbreak. So that the health officials can take pre-emptive measures well before we reach a point where you start seeing sick people around you. If you can see people with flu like symptoms around you then there is no need for the system as you, yourself can tell that it is an Epidemic. An epidemic means higher number of patients with Flu like symptoms than there should be in a particular time period. The system caters for seasonal increase in the number of patients.