Advances in nowcasting influenza-like illness rates using search query logs
Advances in nowcasting influenza-like illness rates using search query logs
Abstract User-generated content can assist epidemiological surveillance in the early detection and prevalence estimation of infectious diseases, such as influenza. Google Flu Trends embodies the first public platform for transforming search queries to indications about the current state of flu in various places all over the world. However, the original …