Big Data Hubris: Google Flu versus reality – Boing Boing

Big Data Hubris: Google Flu versus realityCory Doctorow at 6:00 pm Mon, Mar 24, 2014

In The Parable of Google Flu:
Traps in Big Data Analysis [PDF], published in Science, researchers try to understand why Google Flu (which uses search history to predict flu outbreaks) performed so well at first but has not done well since. One culprit: people […]