Tracking flu levels with Wikipedia

Friday, April 18, 2014 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

Can monitoring Wikipedia hits show how many people have the flu? Researchers have developed a method of estimating levels of influenza-like illness in the American population by analyzing Internet traffic on specific flu-related Wikipedia articles.

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