A machine learning method to monitor China's AIDS epidemics with data from Baidu trends.
Journal:
PloS one
Published Date:
Jan 1, 2018
Abstract
BACKGROUND: AIDS is a worrying public health issue in China and lacks timely and effective surveillance. With the diffusion and adoption of the Internet, the 'big data' aggregated from Internet search engines, which contain users' information on the concern or reality of their health status, provide a new opportunity for AIDS surveillance. This paper uses search engine data to monitor and forecast AIDS in China.