Singapore infectious disease tracking by Google search mining

The frequency of internet searches has been shown to demonstrate effectiveness in predicting disease incidence. However, previous studies have mainly focused on larger regions such as the United States and China, and few have researched on Singapore. By analysing Google search query data, we examine...

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Main Author: Ong, Yan Chun
Other Authors: Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-689352023-02-28T18:04:23Z Singapore infectious disease tracking by Google search mining Ong, Yan Chun Sebastian Maurer-Stroh School of Biological Sciences A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute DRNTU::Science The frequency of internet searches has been shown to demonstrate effectiveness in predicting disease incidence. However, previous studies have mainly focused on larger regions such as the United States and China, and few have researched on Singapore. By analysing Google search query data, we examined the relationship between search volume for infectious diseases (influenza, dengue fever and hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)) and actual disease occurrence in Singapore. Interestingly, influenza counts had high correlations with hfmd- and dengue-related search terms. We constructed linear models using data from 2012-2014 to predict incidence for testing period 2015-May 2016; the best-performing models had correlations of 0.805 for influenza, 0.783 for dengue, and 0.919 for HFMD for the test period. Among them, models for influenza and HFMD demonstrated predictive abilities, and may prove useful in complementing traditional surveillance methods. Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences 2016-08-15T02:17:19Z 2016-08-15T02:17:19Z 2016 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68935 en Nanyang Technological University 130 p. application/pdf
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Singapore infectious disease tracking by Google search mining
description The frequency of internet searches has been shown to demonstrate effectiveness in predicting disease incidence. However, previous studies have mainly focused on larger regions such as the United States and China, and few have researched on Singapore. By analysing Google search query data, we examined the relationship between search volume for infectious diseases (influenza, dengue fever and hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD)) and actual disease occurrence in Singapore. Interestingly, influenza counts had high correlations with hfmd- and dengue-related search terms. We constructed linear models using data from 2012-2014 to predict incidence for testing period 2015-May 2016; the best-performing models had correlations of 0.805 for influenza, 0.783 for dengue, and 0.919 for HFMD for the test period. Among them, models for influenza and HFMD demonstrated predictive abilities, and may prove useful in complementing traditional surveillance methods.
author2 Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
author_facet Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
Ong, Yan Chun
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author Ong, Yan Chun
author_sort Ong, Yan Chun
title Singapore infectious disease tracking by Google search mining
title_short Singapore infectious disease tracking by Google search mining
title_full Singapore infectious disease tracking by Google search mining
title_fullStr Singapore infectious disease tracking by Google search mining
title_full_unstemmed Singapore infectious disease tracking by Google search mining
title_sort singapore infectious disease tracking by google search mining
publishDate 2016
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68935
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