Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "big data"
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A generalized approach for producing, quantifying, and validating citizen science data from wildlife images
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016)Abstract Citizen science has the potential to expand the scope and scale of research in ecology and conservation, but many professional researchers remain skeptical of data produced by nonexperts. We devised an approach ... -
Google Flu Trends Still Appears Sick: An Evaluation of the 2013-2014 Flu Season
(Social Science Electronic Publishing, 2014)In response to its poor performance during the 2012-2013 flu season, Google Flu Trends (GFT) engineers announced a redesign of the GFT algorithm. Two changes were made: (1) dampening anomalous media spikes and (2) using ...