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2015 01 Nov

When social media is abuzz with tweets about cold and flu, it's more likely that actual viruses are spreading. Based on a study of online flu conversations that found a strong correlation between these conversations and actual flu cases last year, researchers launched a cold and flu conversation tracker that is a social predictor of the flu. The "Cold...Read more

2015 29 Jan

A study in the online journal Scientific Reports claims that scientists can accurately predict how the flu will spread a week into the future. Using social network analysis, researchers at the University of California (UC) in San Diego combined traditional data with big data to boost the network’s predictive power. Corresponding author Michael...Read more

2014 21 Nov

Predicting the beginning of influenza outbreaks is notoriously difficult, but researchers have devised a new method that makes it easier for hospitals and public health departments to determine the onset of elevated influenza activity at the community level. The researchers say their algorithm or statistical technique, called Above Local Elevated Respiratory...Read more