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Cell Phones ≠ Self and Other Problems with Big Data Detection and Containment during Epidemics.

Evidence from Sierra Leone reveals the significant limitations of big data in disease detection and containment efforts. Early in the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, media heralded HealthMap's ability to detect the outbreak from newsfeeds. Later, big data-specifically, call detail record da...

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Published in:Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 315 - 340
Main Author: Erikson, Susan L.
Format: journal article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2018
Subjects:
Epidemics
Humanitarianism
Ebola virus disease
Big data
Smartphones
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