A supervised learning process to validate online disease reports for use in predictive models

Big Data

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 230-237

  Patching, Helena M M ^a   Hudson, Laurence M ^a   Cooke, Warrick ^a   Garcia, Andres J ^b   Hay, Simon I ^c,d   Roberts, Mark ^a   Moyes, Catherine L ^d  

^a Tessella ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

big data analytics; data acquisition and cleaning; machine learning; structured data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991753476     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2015.0019     Document Type: Article

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