{"id":595,"date":"2006-01-25T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T04:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2006-01-29T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T16:08:26","slug":"game-forecasts-epidemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Game Forecasts Epidemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a disappointing BusinessWeek article about advertising and videogames, I found something more interesting over on News.com. From their article (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Scientists+use+Net+game+to+forecast+epidemics\/2100-11395_3-6031234.html?tag=nefd.top\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>):  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Internet game akin to &#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo?&#8221; for tracing the movement of dollar bills has helped scientists develop a statistical model for predicting the spread of an epidemic in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization have used the Web game &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheresgeorge.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Where&#8217;s George?<\/a>,&#8221; which monitors the geographic circulation of dollar bills by their serial numbers, to forecast how a virus would spread from human to human.<\/p>\n<p>The physicists based their research on the idea that like viruses, money is transported by people from place to place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds familiar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a disappointing BusinessWeek article about advertising and videogames, I found something more interesting over on News.com. From their article (Link): An Internet game akin to &#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo?&#8221; for tracing the movement of dollar bills has helped scientists develop a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=595\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}