Re: [Wiki-research-l] stats.grok.se beats Google Flu Trends for predicting outbreaks

2014-04-24 Thread Alex Druk
There were a good article criticising Google Flu approach: “ The parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis” *http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/12016836/The%20Parable%20of%20Google%20Flu%20(WP-Final).pdf?sequence=1

[Wiki-research-l] stats.grok.se beats Google Flu Trends for predicting outbreaks

2014-04-23 Thread James Salsman
McIver, David J. and John S. Brownstein (April 17, 2014) Wikipedia Usage Estimates Prevalence of Influenza-Like Illness in the United States in Near Real-Time PLOS Computational Biology: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581 Wikipedia article view data has been