POLICYFORUM BIG DATA The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis Large errors in flu prediction were largely avoidable‚ which offers lessons for the use of big data. David Lazer‚ 1‚ 2* Ryan Kennedy‚1‚ 3‚ 4 Gary King‚3 Alessandro Vespignani 3‚5‚6 I CREDIT: ADAPTED FROM AXEL KORES/DESIGN & ART DIRECTION/ISTOCKPHOTO.COM n February 2013‚ Google Flu Trends (GFT) made headlines but not for a reason that Google executives or the creators of the flu tracking system would have hoped. Nature reported
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ONLINE SHORT ESSAY Technical Requirements: No more than two (2) pages‚ typed‚ double-spaced‚ 12-point font‚ one (1)-inch margins. Please put your name and current mailing address in a header on each page of the essay and number the pages. These technical requirements‚ including the page limit‚ will be strictly enforced‚ and students submitting non-conforming essays risk receiving the grade of “F” on this assignment. Deadline: Friday‚ February 8‚ 2013‚ 12:00 Noon. The essay must
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The Spanish flu of 1918-1919 was the worst global disaster in the American history‚ it killed more people in one year than twenty four years of AIDS from 1980 to 2004. The Spanish flu was an infectious disease caused by the (H1N1) virus. The pandemic led to important developments in medicine‚ for example the efficiency of vaccinations. This research essay will firstly consider the epidemiology of the Spanish flu in the united states between 1918 and 1919‚ then it will examine its treatment and prevention
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SHORT ESSAYS 1.LIFE SUCCEED IN THAT IT SEEMS TO FAIL. Life has resilient nature‚ it never let hope to cut off even in the lurch. It arrives at specific conditioning through entertaining demands at variable intervals and in variable amounts and some times at discretion. This comes up with optimism. Optimism let one to crow over even in inauspicious conditions. In fact life do miracles in lurch conditions and turns the corner. It triumphs‚ when there is no hope of its victory. Traditional stories
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03/26/2013 G/W 2‚ C. Werner Description of Composition SHORT ESSAY I have many wonderful moment in my life‚ in my home country with my family and my friends.we lived in a beautiful areaand Were pleased with our neighbors.during Have the holidays left all the campaign. However‚ I remember a good experience that i still can not forget. During this spring break I made a visit to my cousin Matthew who live in Dallas‚ tough spending
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A short essay I’d like to compare “The Ecchoing Green” of Songs of Innocence to “The Fly” of Songs of Experience. “The Ecchoing Green” is a poem which follows the chronological order‚ from “The Sun does arise” to “The sun does descend”. The poem describes a nice day with the merry bells and the birds’ singing. “Old John” is seeing and laughing at children’s playing‚ and recalling his youth time. “The Fly” tells the feeling of “little fly” and from which‚ it discusses about life and death
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SHORT ESSAY Living in a house or an apartment are genuinely two personal choices people usually have to make when finding a place for their family to live in. It all depends on how big an individual’s family is‚ and coming from a culture where the whole family including the extended family prefers living under one roof‚ solely due to this reason I would prefer to live in a house because of a large family. Therefore people with smaller families would most likely choose an apartment compared to a large
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Narrative When we start writing essay‚ we have to think about 2 things. 1: You have some valuable ideas to tell your reader 2: More than anything‚ you want to communicate those ideas to your reader One of the common mistakes inexperienced writers make is filing to move past early stages in the writing process in which they are writing for-or writing to- themselves only. Surely‚ I have experienced this mistake and I did not realize if I make a mistake. An essay is to tell ideas the reader and to
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Exemplification Essay Organization and Essay Assignments Overview This is to help clarify our two essay assignments. The two 5-paragraph essays that we will write this semester will each have an introductory paragraph‚ three body paragraphs‚ and a conclusion paragraph. The first essay will be a simple expansion of the Exemplification (Example) Paragraph‚ so it will logically be about the same person you chose as the topic for your example paragraph. The second essay will be a basic Justification
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Short Essay Questions 1. I was watching a new episode of White Collar an interesting‚ yet overly dramatic crime show and I distinctively remember four commercials. The first one was for some fancy restaurant that showed a nice juicy steak with a ton of appetizing food on the table. The next commercial‚ ironically‚ was for some gym that showed a man that had muscles in places I frankly didn’t know could gain muscle‚ the man was outrageously big. The next commercial was for another show by the same
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