Comments on: Google flu trends: Web searches as sensors http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/04/26/google-flu-trends-web-searches-as-sensors/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Can infodemiology help manage a Swine Flu pandemic? http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/04/26/google-flu-trends-web-searches-as-sensors/comment-page-1/#comment-30680 Can infodemiology help manage a Swine Flu pandemic? Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:53:56 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1838#comment-30680 [...] bit of discussion about this back in April with the first wave of H1N1 (swine flu) concerns (e.g., Google flu trends: Web searches as sensors). The article mentions Google Flu Trends and HealthMap, but I was surprised with some of the new [...] [...] bit of discussion about this back in April with the first wave of H1N1 (swine flu) concerns (e.g., Google flu trends: Web searches as sensors). The article mentions Google Flu Trends and HealthMap, but I was surprised with some of the new [...]

]]> By: Gunther Eysenbach http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/04/26/google-flu-trends-web-searches-as-sensors/comment-page-1/#comment-29336 Gunther Eysenbach Fri, 01 May 2009 14:33:39 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1838#comment-29336 Please stop positioning Google Flutrends as a "Google invention" and regurgitating Google press releases. NEWSFLASH: The idea to look at search data as early warning systems for flu outbreaks is not a Google invention, but was actually already proposed over 3 years ago (published 2006), by researchers from the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation and U of T. Eysenbach G. Infodemiology: tracking flu-related searches on the web for syndromic surveillance. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2006:244-248 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17238340 Eysenbach G. Infodemiology and Infoveillance: Framework for an Emerging Set of Public Health Informatics Methods to Analyze Search, Communication and Publication Behavior on the Internet J Med Internet Res 2009;11(1):e11 URL: http://www.jmir.org/2009/1/e11 The Virus Chasers http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/35061.html CIHR Newsarticle (2007) about the infodemiology / infoveillance work at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto Please stop positioning Google Flutrends as a “Google invention” and regurgitating Google press releases.

NEWSFLASH: The idea to look at search data as early warning systems for flu outbreaks is not a Google invention, but was actually already proposed over 3 years ago (published 2006), by researchers from the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation and U of T.

Eysenbach G. Infodemiology: tracking flu-related searches on the web for syndromic surveillance. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2006:244-248
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17238340

Eysenbach G. Infodemiology and Infoveillance: Framework for an Emerging Set of Public Health Informatics Methods to Analyze Search, Communication and Publication Behavior on the Internet
J Med Internet Res 2009;11(1):e11
URL: http://www.jmir.org/2009/1/e11

The Virus Chasers
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/35061.html
CIHR Newsarticle (2007) about the infodemiology / infoveillance work at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto

]]> By: Google flu trends: Web searches as pandemic sensors « TalkingHeads@UMBC http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/04/26/google-flu-trends-web-searches-as-sensors/comment-page-1/#comment-29289 Google flu trends: Web searches as pandemic sensors « TalkingHeads@UMBC Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:07:35 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1838#comment-29289 [...] Finin, professor of computer science and expert on deep data-mining of the Web and social networks, blogs at UMBC ebiquity about the swine flu outbreak and how Web searches can predict pandemic patterns ahead of an [...] [...] Finin, professor of computer science and expert on deep data-mining of the Web and social networks, blogs at UMBC ebiquity about the swine flu outbreak and how Web searches can predict pandemic patterns ahead of an [...]

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