fluTrends: Google fluTrends

In jarad/ISDSWorkshop: International Society for Disease Surveillance R Workshop

Description

A data set containing google flu trends data (<http://www.google.org/flutrends/us/#US>) for the United States. Downloaded from <http://www.google.org/flutrends/us/data.txt> on 26 Nov 2014.

Usage

data(fluTrends)

Format

A data frame with 583 rows and 160 columns

Details

For each column, an index of the current influenza activity level for that region. The index is based on google search engine queries.

Author(s)

Jarad Niemi

• Date Date. The week of the observations

References

Ginsberg, Jeremy, Matthew H. Mohebbi, Rajan S. Patel, Lynnette Brammer, Mark S. Smolinski, and Larry Brilliant. "Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data." Nature 457, no. 7232 (2008): 1012-1014.

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