{"id":3495,"date":"2014-04-03T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2014-04-03T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T18:27:14","slug":"google-flu-trends-failure-shows-good-data-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/google-flu-trends-failure-shows-good-data-big-data\/3495\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Flu Trends\u2019 Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, authors Viktor Mayer-Sch\u00f6nberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. They explained how Google\u2019s algorithm mined five years of web logs, containing hundreds of billions of searches, and created a predictive model utilizing 45 search terms that \u201cproved to be a more useful and timely indicator [of flu] than government statistics with their natural reporting lags.\u201d Unfortunately, no. The first sign of trouble emerged in 2009, shortly after GFT launched, when it completely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/google-flu-trends-failure-shows-good-data-big-data\/3495\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, authors Viktor Mayer-Sch\u00f6nberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. They explained how Google\u2019s algorithm mined five years of web logs, containing hundreds of billions of searches, and created a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[327,328,94],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}