The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 343 Số 6176 - Trang 1203-1205 - 2014
David Lazer1,2, Ryan Kennedy3,2,4, Gary King3, Alessandro Vespignani3,5,6
1Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
2Lazer Laboratory, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
3Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
4University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
5Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin, Italy
6Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Sociotechnical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Tóm tắt

Large errors in flu prediction were largely avoidable, which offers lessons for the use of big data.

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