Using Friends as Sensors to Detect Global-Scale Contagious Outbreaks
Using Friends as Sensors to Detect Global-Scale Contagious Outbreaks
Recent research has focused on the monitoring of global–scale online data for improved detection of epidemics, mood patterns, movements in the stock market political revolutions, box-office revenues, consumer behaviour and many other important phenomena. However, privacy considerations and the sheer scale of data available online are quickly making global monitoring …