%0 Journal Article %T Digital Epidemiology %A Marcel Salath¨¦ %A Linus Bengtsson %A Todd J. Bodnar %A Devon D. Brewer %A John S. Brownstein %A Caroline Buckee %A Ellsworth M. Campbell %A Ciro Cattuto %A Shashank Khandelwal %A Patricia L. Mabry %A Alessandro Vespignani %J PLOS Computational Biology %D 2012 %I Public Library of Science (PLoS) %R 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002616 %X Mobile, social, real-time: the ongoing revolution in the way people communicate has given rise to a new kind of epidemiology. Digital data sources, when harnessed appropriately, can provide local and timely information about disease and health dynamics in populations around the world. The rapid, unprecedented increase in the availability of relevant data from various digital sources creates considerable technical and computational challenges. %U http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002616