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The use of Craigslist posts for risk behavior and STI surveillance
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The rise and associated risks of using the internet to find sexual partners among men who have sex with men (MSM) has been noted by many researchers.1,2 The anonymity and relative ease of finding partners on the internet has facilitated casual… read more… or anticipating STI outbreaks. Craigslist is a website specializing in online classified advertisements … or anticipating STI outbreaks. Craigslist is a website specializing in online classified advertisements … geocoded to specific counties using the Google Maps API. All geocoded messages are then searched to identify two … -
Samos: a community-driven open-access prediction market system
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Prediction markets are a type of futures market in which users trade shares that pay off if the event to which they are connected occurs. They are used to aggregate knowledge on a large scale, as the prices of the various contracts can be… read more… of allowing a community of users to collectively manage a website for running prediction markets. Acknowledgements … -
Using Twitter to estimate H1N1 influenza activity
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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its millions of users to send and read each other’s ‘tweets’, or short messages limited to 140 characters. The service has more than 190 million registered users and… read more… networking systems. Methods We collected and stored all public tweets beginning October 1, 2009 that matched a … (min!0.01%, max!1.25%), and a standard deviation of 0.26%. Similar results were obtained when estimating ILI at a …