Flutrack: Real-time tracking of flu symptoms

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Flutrack.org Real-time tracking of flu symptoms Karolos Talvis, Kostantinos Chorianopoulos

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Flutrack.org

Real-time tracking of flu symptoms

Karolos Talvis, Kostantinos Chorianopoulos

Motivation

• Deaths– WWI 21 million

– 1918 flu pandemic 50-100 million

– WWII 60-85 million

– 1957 Asian flu 1-1.5 million

– 1968 Hong Kong flu 0.75-1 million

– USA 3.300-49.000 yearly

• Interaction design for epidemics?

Case study: Cholera outbreak

Interaction Design for Epidemics

• Epidemiology task flow:

• User requirements:

– Open-data, Geo-located, Real-time

Symptoms Analysis Reporting

www.flutracking.net

Mappyhealth.com

GermTracker.org

Flu epidemic 2012

December 3, 2012. December 27, 2012.

http://flutrack.org

Accuracy

December 15th, 2013

Google Flu Trends

Comparison to related Work

Flutrack.org Flutracking Flu trends Mappyhealth Germtracker

Geo location Yes City City Yes Yes

Filtering Yes Yes Yes No No

Real-time 20 min 1 week 1 day 1 hour Yes

Map Interactive Interactive Fixed No Interactive

Symptoms Tweets Emails Search Tweets Tweets

Open Data Real-time No Summary Summary No

Open Source GitHub No No No No

Ongoing Work

• Personal reports, alerts, aggravation

• Weather

• Mobile App

• Prediction

• Flights

• Plug-in architecture– Scalability: Cloud hosting

– Data source: Facebook, SMS

– Localization (Languages)

http://flutrack.org