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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 ...