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. 2014 Mar 14;343(6176):1203-5.
doi: 10.1126/science.1248506.

Big data. The parable of Google Flu: traps in big data analysis

David Lazer  1 , Ryan Kennedy, Gary King, Alessandro Vespignani
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Big data. The parable of Google Flu: traps in big data analysis

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