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20152022
most citedCombining Search, Social Media, and Traditional Data Sources to Improve Influenza Surveillance

457 citations · 561 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.soc-ph2022★ 4 cited

Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Brennan Klein, Timothy LaRock, Stefan McCabe +13

The COVID-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented natural experiment providing insights into the emergence of collective behavioral changes of both exogenous (government mandated) and…

cs.CL2021

TCube: Domain-Agnostic Neural Time-series Narration

Mandar Sharma, John S. Brownstein, Naren Ramakrishnan

The task of generating rich and fluent narratives that aptly describe the characteristics, trends, and anomalies of time-series data is invaluable to the sciences (geology, meteoro…

cs.CY2017★ 15 cited

Demographics in Social Media Data for Public Health Research: Does it matter?

Nina Cesare, Christan Grant, Jared B. Hawkins +2

Social media data provides propitious opportunities for public health research. However, studies suggest that disparities may exist in the representation of certain populations (e.…

cs.CL2017★ 2 cited

Guided Deep List: Automating the Generation of Epidemiological Line Lists from Open Sources

Saurav Ghosh, Prithwish Chakraborty, Bryan L. Lewis +5

Real-time monitoring and responses to emerging public health threats rely on the availability of timely surveillance data. During the early stages of an epidemic, the ready availab…

stat.AP2016★ 1 cited

Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue

Shihao Yang, S. C. Kou, Fred Lu +3

Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that threatens more than half of the world's population. Despite being endemic to over 100 countries, government-led efforts and mechanisms to ti…

cs.SI2016

Temporal Topic Modeling to Assess Associations between News Trends and Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Saurav Ghosh, Prithwish Chakraborty, Elaine O. Nsoesie +4

In retrospective assessments, internet news reports have been shown to capture early reports of unknown infectious disease transmission prior to official laboratory confirmation. I…