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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Main Authors: Garcia-Herranz, Manuel (Author), Moro, Esteban (Author), Cebrian, Manuel (Contributor), Christakis, Nicholas A. (Author), Fowler, James H. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2014-06-24T15:19:27Z.
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