Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data
Liz Gannes, allthingsd.comA small start-up called Sickweather says public tweets and Facebook messages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu season, six weeks before the CDC.
Baltimore-based Sickweather tweeted about the early flu season on O…
By far the best datasets for disease info are the CDC’s…
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As more web driven mass crowd sourced health data is collected by large search and portals and organized it is being packaged and anonymized to provide services that normally took many months to years and required whole separate agencies and departments to run. So for example Patientslikeme is now making possible users with health conditions to provide reports on conditions in a standardized manner which provides web based “user driven” trials that can quickly provide important feedback on therapies. Similarly Google can now beat CDC in predictive value for flu outbreaks. Read on…
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