Finally, Google shut down the GFT flu prediction function in 2015 (GFT, 2015). The most well-known GFT algorithm is its initial version.
Keeping this in consideration, what is big data hubris?
The main reason seems to be “big data hubris”—the assumption that big data can substitute for (rather than supplement) traditional data collection and analysis. Simply put, people are becoming overconfident about big data.
Thereof, what technologies can be used to diagnose the flu?
Diagnostic tests available for detection of influenza viruses in respiratory specimens include molecular assays (including rapid molecular assays, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and other nucleic acid amplification tests); and antigen detection tests (including rapid influenza diagnostic tests …
When was Google Flu Trends created?
Google Flu Trends (GFT)
Originally developed in 2008, GFT estimated ILI rates in a population based on the frequency of a selected set of queries to the Google search engine [1].
Why was Google Flu discontinued?
Approaches to estimate flu epidemics of another independent research team based on google trends showed a better accuracy then GFT. There was enough reason to cancel this project, many also say it was cancelled because it was able to predict the past better than the future. The promising results of Yang et al.