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This is pretty cool read. This company picked up on the spread of Zika and correctly forecast it's spread. Now it picked up on Wuhan Virus weeks before the CDC. They about to make some big money but it also shows that AI and algos can pick up outbreaks significantly faster than current methods.
An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Alerts of the Coronavirus
The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China.
www.wired.com