Tracking the flu by tracking the tweets | Health Tech - CNET News - 3 views
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awqi zar on 30 Sep 10"A microblogging service such as Twitter is a promising new data source for Internet-based surveillance because of the volume of messages, [and] their frequency and public availability," according to Aron Culotta, assistant professor of computer science at Southeastern Louisiana University, who, in recent months analyzed 500 million tweets to track the flu.