Last week Google introduced Google Correlate, an experimental tool enabling researchers to model real-world behavior using search trends. Google designed Google Flu Trends to give an early warning about flu outbreaks.
It also used it to create an early warning system for Dengue called Google Dengue Trends in Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Singapore which provides an additional surveillance tool for a disease that affects about 100 million people each year.
"Singapore has an impressively timely surveillance system for dengue, but in many countries it can take weeks or months for dengue case data to be collected, analyzed and made available. During the dengue outbreak at last year’s Commonwealth Games, we discussed the need for timely dengue information. With help from Professor John Brownstein and Emily Chan fromHealthMap, a program at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, we were able to create our system. Using the dengue case count data provided by Ministries of Healthand the World Health Organization, we’re able to build a model that offers near real-time estimates of dengue activity based on the popularity of certain search terms. Google Dengue Trends is automatically updated every day, thereby providing an early indicator of dengue activity."...as per Google's Official Blog.
Google hopes that the early warning provided by Google Dengue Trends helps health officials and the public prepare for potential dengue outbreaks.
Source: Google Official Blog
It also used it to create an early warning system for Dengue called Google Dengue Trends in Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Singapore which provides an additional surveillance tool for a disease that affects about 100 million people each year.
"Singapore has an impressively timely surveillance system for dengue, but in many countries it can take weeks or months for dengue case data to be collected, analyzed and made available. During the dengue outbreak at last year’s Commonwealth Games, we discussed the need for timely dengue information. With help from Professor John Brownstein and Emily Chan fromHealthMap, a program at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, we were able to create our system. Using the dengue case count data provided by Ministries of Healthand the World Health Organization, we’re able to build a model that offers near real-time estimates of dengue activity based on the popularity of certain search terms. Google Dengue Trends is automatically updated every day, thereby providing an early indicator of dengue activity."...as per Google's Official Blog.
Google hopes that the early warning provided by Google Dengue Trends helps health officials and the public prepare for potential dengue outbreaks.
Source: Google Official Blog
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