The next chapter for flu trends

When a small team of software engineers first started working on Flu Trends in 2008, we wanted to explore how real-world phenomena could be modeled using patterns in search queries. Since its launch , Google Flu Trends has provided useful insights and served as one of the early examples for "nowcasting" based on search trends , which is increasingly used in health, economics , and other fields . Over time, we've used search signals to create prediction models,...