Estimating Influenza Outbreaks Using Both Search Engine Query Data and Social Media Data in South Korea.
Hyekyung WooYoungtae ChoEunyoung ShimJong-Koo LeeChang-Gun LeeSeong Hwan KimPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2016)
These results demonstrate the feasibility of using search queries to enhance influenza surveillance in South Korea. In addition, an approach for query selection using social media data seems ideal for supporting influenza surveillance based on search query data.