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The Code Using patterns in Google searches to predict flu outbreaks
Marcus du Sautoy explores how internet searches are building up a huge database of linked information which can then be mined for patterns. Visiting Google’s offices, he sees this at work and reveals just how closely Google can predict flu outbreaks, even before hospitals have begun to need to respond to them. Flu kills hundreds of thousands each year, but ...
- 2011
- 00:04:02
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- Added on: 09/03/2019
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How to Think Like a Computer Search engines
The term 'search engine' is explained through everyday activities and events. Computer Head is trying to find a single item in a pile of hay and is doing this by going through all the individual strands of hay. His friend Ada suggests that a search engine would be the best way to search through lots of items to find the ...
- 2016
- 00:03:06
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- Added on: 09/03/2019
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