Using Friends as Sensors to Detect Global-Scale Contagious Outbreaks

Recent research has focused on the monitoring of global–scale online data for improved detection of epidemics, mood patterns, movements in the stock market political revolutions, box-office revenues, consumer behaviour and many other important phenomena. However, privacy considerations and the sheer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Garcia-Herranz, Manuel, Moro, Esteban, Cebrian, Manuel, Christakis, Nicholas A., Fowler, James H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88090