{"id":25269,"date":"2012-01-10T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/twitter-as-an-epidemic-tracker.html"},"modified":"2012-01-12T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:41:48","slug":"twitter-as-an-epidemic-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/twitter-as-an-epidemic-tracker.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter as an epidemic tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This makes a lot of sense.  Tweeting is easy, and mining it is quite practical. Using it to track epidemic progress turns out to be as accurate as the official reports, but much, much quicker. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fonepercent%2F2012%2F01%2F10%2Frexfeatures_1253147b.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/onepercent\/2012\/01\/twitter-updates-help-track-hai.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news'>One Per Cent: Twitter helps track cholera spread in Haiti<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNiall Firth, technology editor. rexfeatures_1253147b.jpg (Image: Sipa Press\/Rex Features). When disaster strikes, Twitter is always the first to know. Now a new study has demonstrated that using Twitt&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This makes a lot of sense. Tweeting is easy, and mining it is quite practical. Using it to track epidemic progress turns out to be as accurate as the official reports, but much, much quicker. #ddtb Embedded Link One Per Cent: Twitter helps track cholera spread in Haiti Niall Firth, technology editor. rexfeatures_1253147b.jpg (Image: Sipa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/twitter-as-an-epidemic-tracker.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twitter as an epidemic tracker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,70],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-health-science","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/happy-blogaversary-to-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":25269,"position":0},"title":"Happy Blogaversary to Me","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Aug-15 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"My blog is fourteen years old today. \u00a0Well, yesterday, actually. 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