Lessons Learned about Public Health from Online Crowd Surveillance

Big Data

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 160-167

  Hill, Shawndra ^a   Merchant, Raina ^b   Ungar, Lyle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84991769393     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2013.0020     Document Type: Article

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