Google.org announced yesterday that they have expanded Google Flu Trends to 16 additional countries. This system, which is available online, estimates current influenza-like illness (ILI) activity in the U.S. — and now in countries like Bulgaria and Russia — using massive amounts of data generated by Google web search queries for flu-related terms. [...]
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The Google Flu Trends team, working with the Predict and Prevent initiative at Google.org — Google’s philanthropic arm — has developed a slick new tool for estimating flu levels from online searches for flu-related topics. Source: Google.org at http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html Google Flu Trends is based on what appears to be a strong association between the volume of [...] |
I am an Associate in the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the New York University Master's Program in Global Public Health. 
 
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