Future Gazing with Search Data
Search queries aren’t always better than traditional trend-spotting methods.
For the past few years, computer scientists have touted Web-search data as a way to spot emerging trends–from changes in housing prices and unemployment numbers to the next box-office hit or the location of the next flu epidemic. But research released today gives a more nuanced view of what these data are good at predicting, and why.
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