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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
- 15-17
- Added on: 09/03/2019
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