Digital Disease Detection
8 articles
Digital Disease Detection: Can Wikipedia Monitor Diseases Globally?
Jul 21, 2014 | AnonymousFor better or worse, the Internet has become the world’s number one source for health-related information. Think about it: how many times have you...
Digital Disease Detection: We See The Trends, But Who is Actually Sick?
Jun 23, 2014 | Elaine NsoesieThere are plenty of studies about tracking diseases (such as influenza) using digital data sources, which is awesome! However, many of these studies...
Digital Disease Detection: Tracking Influenza with...Wikipedia?
Jun 10, 2014 | AnonymousHello loyal Disease Daily readers! I am here to tell you about a new method of influenza-like illness surveillance, using a digital data source....
Digital Disease Detection: One Researcher's Take on Twitter, Research and Privacy
Jun 8, 2014 | AnonymousIf you are one of the 255 million active monthly users of the social networking site Twitter, you may be surprised to learn that you are contributing...
Digital Disease Detection: A Look at Participatory Surveillance of Dengue
May 13, 2014 | Elaine NsoesieAs an aspiring or expert digital disease detective you are probably familiar with one of the many efforts to monitor diseases such as dengue, by...
Digital Disease Detection: An Introduction
Feb 11, 2014 | Elaine NsoesieWelcome, dear reader, to the first (of what we hope to be many) post in our new Digital Disease Detection column. My name is Elaine Nsoesie. I am a...
Creating Connections: How Transportation Data can Predict Pandemics
Feb 26, 2013 | Katharina SchwanA historical look at the bubonic plague’s trail of terror across Europe in the 1300s reveals interesting epidemiological data when compared to modern...
Digital Disease Detection: Public Health by the “Web Kids”
Mar 29, 2012 | Anna TomasuloIn his essay, “We, the Web Kids,” Polish poet and pundit Piotr Czerski writes: “We don’t use the Internet…we live on the Internet and along it…...
