Assessing the Utility of Google Health Trends for Forecasting Dengue in Brazil

Julie Allison Spencer1, Martha Barnard1,2, Nidhi Parikh3, Caroline Franco4, Kaitlyn Michelle Martinez1, Carrie Manore5, Erik J Scully6 and Anthony L Nguy-Robertson7, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, (A-1) Information Systems & Modeling, Los Alamos, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Minneapolis, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, (T-6) Theoretical Biology & Biophysics, Los Alamos, United States, (6)National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Springfield, United States, (7)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States