Saturday, 25 October 2014

Big data becomes tool in Ebola battle


A health worker wearing a protective suit has his goggles adjusted at the Medecins Sans Frontieres Ebola treatement centre near the main Donka hospital in Conakry on September 25, 2014 Nine days before Ebola was declared an epidemic, a group of researchers and computer scientists in Boston spotted the hemorrhagic fever beginning to spread in Guinea. By scouring the Internet for clues from social media, local news reports and other available online data, the algorithm developed by HealthMap had an early picture of the deadly disease moving across West Africa. "Official agencies tend to be more cautious about these announcements, so public communication tends to lag," said Clark Freifeld, who co-founded HealthMap in 2006 at Boston Children's Hospital.








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