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FluOutlook is an online platform where multiple data sources are integrated to initialize and train a portfolio of epidemic models for influenza forecast. During the 2014/15 season, the system has been used to provide real-time forecasts for 7 countries in North America and Europe.
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Zhang, Q. et al. (2015). Social Data Mining and Seasonal Influenza Forecasts: The FluOutlook Platform. In: Bifet, A., et al. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. ECML PKDD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9286. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23461-8_21
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