About the Authors

Dasha Pruss

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Yoshinari Fujinuma

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America

Ashlynn R. Daughton

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Information Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America, Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States of America

Michael J. Paul

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

mpaul@colorado.edu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America, Department of Information Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America

Brad Arnot

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America

Danielle Albers Szafir

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America, Department of Information Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America

Jordan Boyd-Graber

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

Paul is a shareholder of, and advisor to, Sickweather, a commercial entity that uses social media to forecast disease. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.