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A comment on The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis [pdf].

Re:The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis [pdf] by nowarninglabel on Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:03PM (#7455403)
The actual study: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203

Gist of it is, Google Trends overestimated flu cases by about double for 100 out of 108 weeks, according to the paper.

Edit: There is actually an interesting podcast available on it without a paywall: http://podcasts.aaas.org/science_podcast/SciencePodcast_1403...

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Re:The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis [pdf] by pyre on Sunday March 23, 2014 @06:10PM (#7455438)
> Google Trends overestimated flu cases by about double for 100 out of 108 weeks

Well, there's a simple solution to that... Just halve all of the results from the current algorithm!

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