Research applications

Some research applications I have developed during my studies at the University of Bristol.

Flu Detector - Tracking Epidemics on Twitter

 

 

 

 

Flu Detector on Facebook

Flu Detector

Flu detector uses the content of Twitter for nowcasting the level of flu-like illness in several UK regions. The applied methodology is presented in the following publications:

1) Tracking the flu pandemic by monitoring the Social Web
2) Flu detector - Tracking epidemics on Twitter

My work has been covered in MIT Technology Review and the CS Department's News (UoB).
Weather talk - extracting weather information by text mining

Weather talk

Blog posts, news articles and road traffic data have been used to infer the weather state in several locations in the UK. The results have been visualised on this page. The applied methodology is presented in my MSc Thesis (Weather talk - extracting weather information by text mining).
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