Social Media for Nowcasting Flu Activity: Spatio-Temporal Big Data Analysis

Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 743 - 760
Published: Jan 5, 2019
Abstract
Contagious diseases pose significant challenges to public healthcare systems all over the world. The rise in emerging contagious and infectious diseases has led to calls for the use of new techniques and technologies capable of detecting, tracking, mapping and managing behavioral patterns in such diseases. In this study, we used Big Data technologies to analyze two sets of flu (influenza) activity data: Twitter data were used to extract...
Paper Details
Title
Social Media for Nowcasting Flu Activity: Spatio-Temporal Big Data Analysis
Published Date
Jan 5, 2019
Volume
21
Issue
4
Pages
743 - 760
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