Open AccessGlobal Disease Monitoring and Forecasting with Wikipedia
Author(s) -
Nicholas Generous,
Geoffrey Fairchild,
Alina Deshpande,
Sara Y. Del Valle,
Reid Priedhorsky
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
online journal of public health informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1947-2579
DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6530
Subject(s) - computer science , data science , the internet , key (lock) , path (computing) , disease , world wide web , data mining , computer security , medicine , computer network , pathology
This poster establishes the utility of Wikipedia as a broadly effective data source for disease information, and we outline a path to a reliable, scientifically sound, operational, and global disease surveillance system that overcomes key gaps in existing traditional and internet-based techniques.