福克斯新闻 社交媒体或成为未来预言家?

 

Doctor Sean Young heads up UCLA's Center for Digital Behavior.

肖恩·扬医生是加州大学洛杉矶分校中心数字行为的主任。

He brought researchers together to figure out…

他带领研究人员一起…

“How can we use social data to predict events in health and medicine, business, politics and social welfare.”

“我们如何使用社交数据预测健康，医学，商业，政治及社会福利等事件。”

It's already worked.

它已经起到作用。

They had people join online communities to talk about HIV and getting tested, and people ended up sharing a lot of personal information.

他们让人们加入网络社区谈论艾滋病毒及接受测试,共享大量的个人信息。

So, they started collecting and filtering through millions of tweets about sexual¹ risk behavior, and their locations, and put them all on a map.

因此他们开始收集和过滤通过数以百万计关于性危险行为及其位置的推特信息并把它们都标记在地图上。

“The places where people are having these conversations are the same places where we're finding outbreaks of HIV.”

“这些人们谈话的地方和我们发现艾滋病毒爆发的地点一样。”

He says health organizations are obviously interested in this, but so are cyber security experts and the military.

他表示卫生组织显然对此感兴趣,而且网络安全专家和军方也是如此。

1 sexual   

adj.性的，两性的，性别的

参考例句：

• He was a person of gross sexual appetites.他是个性欲旺盛的人。
• It is socially irresponsible to refuse young people advice on sexual matters.拒绝向年轻人提供性方面的建议是对社会不负责任。