Dr. Google
The Google is very wise. It can even tell you when your region is sick. The search giant has produced a tool called Google Flu Trends that promises to display where the flu is raging. Fortunately, Oklahoma’s current flu activity is low, according to Google.
Our team found that certain aggregated search queries tend to be very common during flu season each year. We compared these aggregated queries against data provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and we found that there’s a very close relationship between the frequency of these search queries and the number of people who are experiencing flu-like symptoms each week. As a result, if we tally each day’s flu-related search queries, we can estimate how many people have a flu-like illness.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
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