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Google's predictions of flu trends haven't been accurate recently: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/01/google-flu-trends-cdc http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/
by lwf 13y ago
Google's predictions of flu trends haven't been accurate recently: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/01/google-flu-trends-cdc http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2013/01/google-flu-trends-cdc
- AmVess 13y agoI see the point of the article, but it is dated January 13, 2013...which isn't recent.
- Fomite 13y agoThat would have been last flu season, which is about as recent as evaluations of flu surveillance systems get. Also, I saw a presentation given at an infectious disease conference...less than a month ago. Google Flu Trends appears to really break down at small spatial scales, like a single city. Unfortunately, Google is also super opaque about how it works, so it's hard to tune.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoI guess NSA could run a much, much more accurate version of such service.