Accurate Influenza Monitoring and Forecasting Using Novel Internet Data Streams: A Case Study in the Boston Metropolis.

Fred Sun Lu Suqin Hou Kristin Baltrusaitis Manan Shah Jure Leskovec Rok Sosič Jared B Hawkins John S Brownstein Giuseppe Conidi Julia Gunn Josh Gray Anna Zink Mauricio Santillana

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2018)

We show that information from Internet-based data sources, when combined using an informed, robust methodology, can be effectively used as early indicators of influenza activity at fine geographic resolutions.

Keyphrases

health information
electronic health record
big data
air pollution
drinking water
healthcare
high resolution
data analysis
mass spectrometry