Google Flu Trendsand Mass Data: Extrapolated to Ebola?
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https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revtechno.v5.465Keywords:
Data Journalism, Google Trends Flu, Spain, Ébola, ResearchAbstract
Millions of people surf the Internet through the Google search engine. This company leveraging in-training your users Google Flu Trends developed in 2008. This tool was created with the aim of collecting data for the incidence of influenza in a country with high precision. This application records queries that netizens through its search engine Google and the data obtained their own conclusions, as if from a study of epidemiology is involved. Three years later the development of this tool, in 2011, the information you offer data did not resemble reality. What had happened? The Data Journalism was failing. Many users who did not have the flu seeking information on the Internet and Google Flu Trends counted them how sick. With this paper is to analyze this tool andcompare their progress and results with Ebola disease.
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