Patrick Meier: Twitter, Early Warning, Small Data Matters More
Twitter, Crises and Early Detection: Why “Small Data” Still Matters My colleagues John Brownstein and Rumi Chunara at Harvard University’s HealthMap project are continuing to break new ground in the field of Digital Disease Detection. Using data obtained from tweets and online news, the team was able to identify a cholera outbreak in Haiti weeks before health officials acknowledged the problem publicly. …
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