load_reg_data function

Parsing of raw data for regional ILI estimation

load_reg_data(
  gt.folder,
  ili.folder,
  population.file,
  gft.file,
  gt.parser = gt.parser.pub.web
)

Arguments

• gt.folder: folder with all Google Trends data
• ili.folder: folder with all ILI data
• population.file: csv file path with state population data
• gft.file: csv file path for Google Flu Trends
• gt.parser: Google Trends data parser function, could be gt.parser.pub.web or gt.parser.pub.api

Examples

download.file("https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/syang/files/gt2016-10-24.zip",
file.path(tempdir(), "gt2016-10-24.zip"))
unzip(file.path(tempdir(), "gt2016-10-24.zip"), exdir = tempdir())
gt.folder <- file.path(tempdir(), "2016-10-19")

data_parsed <- load_reg_data(
  gt.folder=gt.folder,
  ili.folder=system.file("regiondata", "ili20161121", package = "argo"),
  population.file=system.file("regiondata", "Population.csv", package = "argo"),
  gft.file=system.file("regiondata", "GFT.txt", package = "argo")
)

References

Shaoyang Ning, Shihao Yang, S. C. Kou. Accurate Regional Influenza Epidemics Tracking Using Internet Search Data. Scientific Reports