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How Twitter could better predict disease outbreaks

July 16, 2010 - 12:49pm

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A growing body of literature suggests that the data people make public on the Web can be used to track epidemics, predict box office hits and foretell other aspects of the future. Adding to this evidence, Vasileios Lampos, Tijl De Bie and Nello Cristianini of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Bristol (UK) have released a paper about the utility of Twitter for tracking flu outbreaks, Technology Review reports. The work builds on research pioneered in 2008 by scientists at Google that resulted in Google.org's Flu Trends.

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