[washingtonismoney]

Hey, I can predict that too by which I turn when I blow my nose in the morning.
The prediction part is easy.



... Actually, in Google's case it reads as if they can predict where flu outbreaks have already broken out.

The idea here is to help "seeing like a state" -- i.e. to help big institutions predict when the flu has broken out. Individual flus aren't terribly interesting; a big outbreak or pandemic is worth deploying resources to combat.

Anyway you can probably use some of that Twitter data for your advantage -- I'm thinking the "following" list would be highly predictive.

[washingtonismoney]

Hey, I can predict that too by which I turn when I blow my nose in the morning.
The prediction part is easy.



... Actually, in Google's case it reads as if they can predict where flu outbreaks have already broken out.

The idea here is to help "seeing like a state" -- i.e. to help big institutions predict when the flu has broken out. Individual flus aren't terribly interesting; a big outbreak or pandemic is worth deploying resources to combat.

Anyway you can probably use some of that Twitter data for your advantage -- I'm thinking the "following" list would be highly predictive.