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New York City Officials Hunted Down 10 Food Poisoning Outbreaks Using Yelp
| To head off foodborne illness outbreaks, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and researchers from Columbia University have been scanning the review site Yelp.
| Since 2012, they’ve hunted for hints of food poisoning amidst complaints about slow service, mushy dumplings, and insufficiently bottomless mimosas. A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association describes the machine learning computer system used, which has already detected 10 foodborne illness outbreaks and 8,523 individual cases.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180112231602/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/food-poisoning-health-yelp
| Well they're not a mess like Rio that's for sure. Things should hopefully be okay. Computers once again prove smarter.
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| If it hasn’t happened to you, you’re lucky. You pick a restaurant, arrive, and enjoy your meal. But soon, you’re genuflecting to the porcelain god, or worse, experiencing the thunder from down under. While food poisoning usually recedes after a day or two, it can be deadly. The Center for Disease Control estimates that foodborne illness claims 3,000 American lives a year.