The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis
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- 14 March 2014
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 343 (6176) , 1203-1205
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1248506
Abstract
Large errors in flu prediction were largely avoidable, which offers lessons for the use of big data.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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