Mass Media and the Contagion of Fear: The Case of Ebola in America
Fig 2
Time series of Ebola-related news media, Twitter, and Google search data used in this study.
The samples consist of six weeks of data ending October 31st, 2014. The first case of Ebola confirmed in the U. S. occurred on September 29, 2014. The temporal trends in the data samples are highly inter-correlated, with a minimum of 70% correlation between samples.