Modeling Spread of Disease from Social Interaction
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Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz, Vincent Silenzio "Modeling Spread of Disease from Social Interaction" Sixth AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
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Summary
A nice paper which tries to model the spread of communicable diseases via analysis of social media.
An analogy (from the paper!) : Given that five of your friends have flu-like symptoms, and that you have recently met eight people, possibly strangers, who complained about having runny noses and headaches, what is the probability that you will soon become ill as well?
