Predicting flu trends using twitter data

2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 702-707

  Achrekar, Harshavardhan ^a   Gandhe, Avinash ^b   Lazarus, Ross ^c   Yu, Ssu Hsin ^b   Liu, Benyuan ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS COMPANY INC   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY LEVELS; AUTO-REGRESSION; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; DATA POINTS; EARLY DETECTION; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEST MODELS;

DISEASE CONTROL; FORECASTING; INSPECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79960609227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOMW.2011.5928903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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