Google Flu Trends

In: Interactive Maps Science

25 Oct 2009

Google uses aggregated google search data to estimate flu activity around the world (for 21 countries at the moment).

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Do you doubt the accuracy of this method? There’s a chart comparing historical CDC reports to the google method:

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