A link to the Los Alamos team's web page: http://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-release-archive/2014/November/11.13-using-wikipedia-to-forecast-diseases.php
Their November 2014 PLOS Computational Biology article: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003892 On Sunday, 14 February 2016, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > We have talked in the past about releasing granular geocoded pageview data > so that we may track the spread of diseases. The efforts of the Los Alamos > National Lab folks to do this in a privacy sensitive way are on-going, and > we have our own efforts as well, but completely solving this problem in the > general case is known to be very hard. > > So, I felt personally compelled in the case of Zika, and the confusing > coverage it has seen, to offer to personally help. I can run queries, test > hypotheses, and help publish data that could back up articles. Privacy of > our editors is of course still obviously protected, but that's easier to do > in a specific case with human review than in the general case. > > I offer as much of my volunteer time as will get the job done, plus any of > my official time that my team-mates deem appropriate (they're pretty > awesome, so you probably have me double full time if you need me). > -- Anthony Cole
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