Forecasting Influenza Levels Using Real-Time Social Media Streams

Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2017

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 409-414

  Lee, Kathy ^a   Agrawal, Ankit ^a   Choudhary, Alok ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Influenza; Prediction; Public health; Social media

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; INFLUENZA; REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT; RESPIRATORY ILLNESS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 85032392589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHI.2017.68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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