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Where's George? is a website that lets users track dollar bills. Scientists at the Max Planck institute have used the data from the website to develop an improved model of human movement that can be used to better predict the spread of infectious diseases. More here.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on January 26, 2006 at 01:17 PM in Economics, Medicine, Science | Permalink
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