The prestigious publication MIT Technology Review has highligted very positively an article [1] signed, among others, by Manuel García-Herranz and Manuel Cebrián, researchers linked to EPS-UAM. It consists of an article showing how to use Twitter friends as sensors to detect different issues such as collective moods or disease outbreaks.
[1] Manuel García-Herranz, Esteban Moro Egido, Manuel Cebrián, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler: Using Friends as Sensors to Detect Global-Scale Contagious Outbreaks. CoRR abs/1211.6512 (2012)
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