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      Big Data Opportunities for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance

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          Simon Hay and colleagues discuss the potential and challenges of producing continually updated infectious disease risk maps using diverse and large volume data sources such as social media.

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          Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med
          Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS Med
          Journal ID (publisher-id): PLoS
          Journal ID (pmc): plosmed
          Title: PLoS Medicine
          Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
          ISSN (Print): 1549-1277
          ISSN (Electronic): 1549-1676
          Publication date Collection: April 2013
          Publication date (Print): April 2013
          Publication date (Electronic): 2 April 2013
          Volume: 10
          Issue: 4
          Electronic Location Identifier: e1001413
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
          [2 ]Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
          [3 ]Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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          Since submitting this article, Epidemico has been formed by Boston Children's Hospital to handle licensing of HealthMap data for commercial companies. JB holds an equity stake in Epidemico. The authors declare that no other competing interests exist.

          Conceived and designed the experiments: SIH. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: SIH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SIH DBG CLM JSB. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SIH DBG CLM JSB. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: SIH DBG CLM JSB.

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          Publisher ID: PMEDICINE-D-12-02464
          DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001413
          PMC ID: 3614504
          PubMed ID: 23565065
          SO-VID: f6ab6e5f-ced5-4bd1-832c-45155e1816ee
          Copyright statement: Copyright @ 2013
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          This is an open-access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.

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          Pages: 4
          Funding
          SIH is funded by a Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (#095066). SIH also acknowledges support from the RAPIDD program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health ( http://www.fic.nih.gov). CLM is funded by a Wellcome Trust grant (#091835). JSB is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine grants G08 LM009776 and R01 LM010812. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
          Categories
          Subject: Policy Forum
          Subject: Medicine
          Subject: Epidemiology
          Subject: Disease Informatics
          Subject: Epidemiological Methods
          Subject: Disease Mapping
          Subject: Global Health
          Subject: Infectious Diseases
          Subject: Public Health
          Subject: Disease Ecology

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