The New York Times had an interesting article on Sunday regarding computer modeling of the swine flu epidemic.
The article highlights two university teams that are doing computer models of the spread of the virus. Some of the data being used is obvious: air traffic and commuter traffic data. One data source is not so obvious: the Where’s George? site that lets people track US dollar bills via serial number. I think this is interesting and it apparently provided useful data.
A couple of thoughts:
Posted by Karl W. Reinsch 