Google Trends: A Web-Based Tool for Real-Time Surveillance of Disease Outbreaks
Google Flu Trends can detect regional outbreaks of influenza 7–10 days before conventional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance systems. We describe the Google Trends tool, explain how the data are processed, present examples, and discuss its strengths and limitations. Google Tren...
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Published in | Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 49; no. 10; pp. 1557 - 1564 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford
The University of Chicago Press
15.11.2009
University of Chicago Press Oxford University Press |
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