Using Air Traffic and Currency Tracking Data in to Model the Spread of H1N1 Flu Across the U.S.

In May 2009 Dirk Brockmann, and the epidemic modeling team at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, used air traffic and commuter traffic patterns for the entire country, and data from the American currency tracking website, Where’s George?, to predict the spread of the H1N1 flu or "swine flu" across the United States.