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Here are the inferred flu rates for England & Wales in the last 6 months
based on geolocated Twitter content |
Flu Detector uses the content of Twitter
to nowcast flu rates in several UK regions.
Inferences are compared with official ILI rates from
HPA. Some early performance evaluation results are available
here. The methodology is described in the following publications:
Detecting
Events and Patterns in Large-Scale User
Generated Textual Streams with Statistical Learning Methods,
V. Lampos, Ph.D. Thesis, 2012.
Nowcasting Events from the Social Web with Statistical Learning,
V. Lampos and N. Cristianini, ACM TIST 2011.
Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the Social Web,
V. Lampos and N. Cristianini, CIP 2010.
Flu Detector - Tracking Epidemics on Twitter,
V. Lampos, T. De Bie and N. Cristianini, ECML PKDD 2010.
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Current Flu Rate
21.00 |
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Flu Detector
tracking epidemics on Twitter