Google Flu Trends
How does Google Flu Trends work?
Google believes that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity by state.
Each week, millions of users around the world search for online health information. As you might expect, there are more flu-related searches during flu season, more allergy-related searches during allergy season, and more sunburn-related searches during the summer. You can explore all of these phenomena using Google Trends.Can search query trends provide an accurate, reliable model of real-world phenomena?
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posted by Brandi Tuttle at
3:00 PM
2 Comments:
Try searching for "diet" - it peaks at the start of each year!
Anything seasonal always peaks at certain times during the year. Like "costumes" around Halloween, etc. It's pretty interesting.
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