Veratect: Trend Prediction
April 30, 2009
A happy quack to the reader who sent me a link to the New Zealand Herald’s story “Tech Start-Up Picked Up Swine Flu Trends ‘Weeks Ago’ here. The story carried a Seattle dateline, so this may be old news. The story reported that
Veratect, a two-year-old company with less than 50 employees, combines computer algorithms with human analysts to monitor online and off-line sources for hints of disease outbreaks and civil unrest worldwide. It tracks thousands of “events” each month – an odd case of respiratory illness, or a run on over-the-counter medicines, for example – then ranks them for severity and posts them on a subscription-only web portal for clients who want early warnings.
Veratect extracts information from online sources and online data flows. If you are interested in the company, you can obtain more information here.
Stephen Arnold, April 30, 2009
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