Bill Lampos

Our latest work, where we are nowcasting flu rates from the content of Twitter, has been featured in the media.

The primary article was published in MIT Technology Review:
"How Twitter Could Better Predict Disease Outbreaks" (July 14, 2010)
by Christopher Mims

It was also reproduced in or pointed by New York Times, Communications of the ACM, Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence  and Federal News Radio.

A departmental press release about it is also available:
"Predicting Flu from the content of Twitter" (July 1, 2010)
in the news of Computer Science Department, University of Bristol

Flu detector is available at http://geopatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/epidemics/ and will be presented to the public in ECML PKDD 2010 (September 20-24).