Lymelight: forecasting Lyme disease risk using web search data
Abstract Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. Existing estimates of Lyme disease spread are delayed a year or more. We introduce Lymelight—a new method for monitoring the incidence of Lyme disease in real-time. We use a machine-learned classifier of web sear...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-02-01
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Series: | npj Digital Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-020-0222-x |