Tag Archives: Google Flu Trends

Could Google Have Caught Swine Flu (a.k.a. Mexican Flu, or H1N1) Early?

Written by Chris F. Masse on April 30, 2009 — 1 Comment

Posted in Forecasting (Science & Practice), The Internet | Also tagged diseases, flu, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Google Search, Google Trends, Google Web Search, influenza, keywords, Mexican Flu, predicting, Predictions, search engine requests, Search Engines, Swine Flu. H1N1

Flu prediction markets can correct Google Flu Trends.

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 15, 2008 — 1 Comment

2 practicing physicians laugh at using collective intelligence for nation-wide flu detection:
[...] Flu Trends tracks almost perfectly with data on influenzalike illnesses that the CDC obtains from doctors’ offices. And as an added bonus, Flu Trends detects outbreaks up to two weeks earlier, when people are still sitting at home sneezing into their keyboards. [...]
But [...]

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Google vs. Prediction Markets — Which of the 2 will detect the flu, first?

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 3, 2008 — 4 Comments

An Irish research team hopes to make accurate forecasts of key public health indicators.
University College Cork (UCC) School of Medicine + Intrade
Dr Dylan Evans:
Prediction markets are [specialized], small-scale financial markets operated to predict future events. The idea is that the collected knowledge of many people, each with a different perspective, will be more accurate than [...]