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INFECTED FLIGHT MODELS HOW DISEASES SPREAD

INFECTED FLIGHT MODELS HOW DISEASES SPREAD

INFECTED FLIGHT MODELS HOW DISEASES SPREAD

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Yesterday, hundreds of hackers turned up at Old Billingsgate, London for the 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt Europe Hackathon. After 24 continuous hours of hacking, Infected Flight emerged as the £3,000 winner by tapping into a very relevant issue of infectious disease.

Infected Flight is a disease mapper that models how diseases spread. By analysing real flight path data (source city, source airport, flight time, destination airport and destination city) and  separating a population into four different groups: susceptible, exposed, infected or recovered it can tell you whether your country is greatly affected by a disease or not, and simulate the infection over time.

Watch their pitch here.

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