Archive for the ‘Google Flu Trends’ Category
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments on health/medicine in a recent wide-ranging interview by Charlie Rose have not gotten much attention, so I'm excerpting them here. First, Schmidt discusses Google Flu Trends:
[For clarity I've mixed a few words from Rose's questions with Schmidt's comments]
There are many [positive] things that we can ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
A New York Times article on Google Flu Trends reports that Google's methodology "has been validated by an unrelated study" based on Yahoo! search data whose lead author is Philip Polgreen, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Iowa.
I was glad to learn about the Polgreen study, first, of ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
The CDC data above shows that the occurrence of flu generally peaks in February; the data below from Google insights : flu symptoms, not surprisingly, has a similar peak in February.
Google insights, which uses the same data as Google Flu Trends, shows quite a different pattern for flu shot (below), ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Google Flu trends is an elegant application of search data to medicine. Working on Hardin MD, I’ve long noticed seasonal variations in certain diseases — Colds, flu, & respiratory illnesses peak in winter, and insect bites & sun exposure conditions peak in summer. I pay a lot of attention to ...
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