Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Survey data and human computation for improved flu tracking

  • Stefan Wojcik,
  • Avleen S. Bijral,
  • Richard Johnston,
  • Juan M. Lavista Ferres,
  • Gary King,
  • Ryan Kennedy,
  • Alessandro Vespignani,
  • David Lazer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20206-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Digital trace data from search engines lacks information about the experiences of the individuals generating the data. Here the authors link search data and human computation to build a tracking model of influenza-like illness.