Showing posts with label vaccination policies. Show all posts
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Predicting Disease Transmission from Geo-Tagged Micro-Blog Data

Researchers have begun to mine social network data in order to predict a variety of social, economic, and health related phenomena. While previous work has focused on predict- ing aggregate properties, such as the prevalence of seasonal influenza in a given country, researchers consider the task of fine- grained prediction of the health of specific people from noisy and incomplete data.