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Gary R. Bunt

Bangladesh Big Data

Richard Galpin, BBC News, Big data 'can stop malaria outbreaks before they start'

"A ground-breaking study in Bangladesh has found that using data from mobile phone networks to track the movement of people across the country can help predict where outbreaks of diseases such as malaria are likely to occur, enabling health authorities to take preventative measures. "

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