Google Flu Trends Suffers from Inflammatory Response

March 28, 2014 | In the wake of a Science article criticizing the track record of Google Flu Trends, which has consistently overestimated the scale of influenza outbreaks, Steve Lohr at the New York Times speaks to both the article's authors and Google's engineers to understand what went wrong. Earlier this week, Derek Lowe was just one of several observers wondering if Google Flu's issues might be contagious to other big data projects. New York Times Blog