Abstract
We present an automated tool with a web interface for tracking the prevalence of Influenza-like Illness (ILI) in several regions of the United Kingdom using the contents of Twitter's microblogging service. Our data is comprised by a daily average of approximately 200,000 geolocated tweets collected by targeting 49 urban centres in the UK for a time period of 40 weeks. Official ILI rates from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) form our ground truth. Bolasso, the bootstrapped version of LASSO, is applied in order to extract a consistent set of features, which are then used for learning a regression model.
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Translated title of the contribution | Flu Detector - Tracking Epidemics on Twitter |
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Original language | English |
Title of host publication | European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Bibliographical note
Other page information: 599-602Conference Proceedings/Title of Journal: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
Other identifier: 2001214