7.5Using Social Media for Nowcasting the Flu Activity
- Why would social media be able to serve as an early predictor of flu outbreaks?
- What other variables might help in predicting such outbreaks?
- Why would this problem be a good problem to solve using Big Data technologies mentioned in this chapter?
7.3eBay’s Big Data Solution
- Why did eBay need a Big Data solution?
2. What were the challenges, the proposed solution, and the obtained results?