The thick blue line below shows the volume of Google searches for influenza ... a bit of a boost as well. The chart below from Fishbeck shows the early spike in flu-related hospital visits this ...

he saw that the official CDC numbers showed the flu getting worse, but not nearly at Google’s level. (See the graph above.) The dramatic divergence between the Google data and the official CDC ...

during the swine flu epidemic in the U.S., Google launched Google Flu Trends (see chart above). The National Institutes of Health found it helped them track outbreaks of the disease. It turns out ...

Flu activity in Alabama as measured by Google: Intense. In fact, except for nine states where the activity was listed as "High," the whole country has an "Intense" rating from Google as indicated ...

This was Google Flu Trends’ chart this past winter: Look at all that red—spooky! Except that, unfortunately for Google, there’s a significant portion of the population (myself included ...

(See this earlier post.) He has now generated the graph above comparing the estimates of the much-celebrated Google Flu Trends in blue with the gold-standard data from the CDC in red. He puts a ...

The results were published in the journal Nature. Here is Google Flu Trends chart comparing Massachusetts numbers from this year to previous years: That high peak you see was from the last major ...

This graph of flu trends for the past two years comes from HealthMap. The group, part of Boston Children's Hospital, draws data from different sources including Google Flu Trends, the self ...

While Google shows the current flu outbreak as being the worst of the ... Furthermore, the CDC graph shows that the outbreak is already on the decline. The discrepancy can be accounted for if ...

If you use Google search, you’re likely familiar with Google’s Knowledge Graph, the informational boxes that pop up at the top of search results when you enter a query like “What is the ...