Social networking and search engine data confer real-time advantages
The population-level pattern-based nature of epidemiological research makes it well suited for computational work in general, and for machine learning in particular. The social nature of disease spread makes recent trends in social media computing specifically amenable to epidemiological research, but can computational techniques be reliable indicators and predictors of communicable disease?
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