Accurate Influenza Monitoring and Forecasting Using Novel Internet Data Streams: A Case Study in the Boston Metropolis

Fred Sun Lu   ¹ , AB ;   Suqin Hou   ² , MS ;   Kristin Baltrusaitis   ³ , MS ;   Manan Shah   ⁴ ;   Jure Leskovec   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Rok Sosic   ⁴ , PhD ;   Jared Hawkins   ^{1, 6} , MMSc, PhD ;   John Brownstein   ^{1, 6} , PhD ;   Giuseppe Conidi   ⁷ , MPH ;   Julia Gunn   ⁷ , RN, MPH ;   Josh Gray   ⁸ , MBA ;   Anna Zink   ⁸ , BA ;   Mauricio Santillana   ^{1, 6} , MS, PhD

¹ Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

² Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

³ Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

⁴ Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

⁵ Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA, United States

⁸ athenaResearch, athenahealth, Watertown, MA, United States