Cell Phones ≠ Self and Other Problems with Big Data Detection and Containment during Epidemics
Cell Phones ≠ Self and Other Problems with Big Data Detection and Containment during Epidemics
Evidence from Sierra Leone reveals the significant limitations of big data in disease detection and containment efforts. Early in the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, media heralded HealthMap's ability to detect the outbreak from newsfeeds. Later, big data-specifically, call detail record data collected from millions of cell phones-was hyped …