Online Social Networks Flu Trend Tracker: A Novel Sensory Approach to Predict Flu Trends

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 357 CCIS, Issue , 2013, Pages 353-368

  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

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA MINING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HEALTH RISKS; INSPECTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; CONTINUOUS DATA COLLECTIONS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (OSN); REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84902831836     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38256-7_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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