Google News Lab, in collaboration with Alberto Cairo and Schema Design, introduced a tool to visualize how health-focused internet searches relate to disease spread across the nation, reports CNBC.
Searching for Health uses Google Trends data to map top searches for health issues to the actual location of their occurrences in order to "understand how search data reflects life for millions of Americans."
The website shows that in geographic areas where searches for cancer, heart disease, stroke and depression are high, so are their occurrences. Conversely, in areas where obesity and diabetes-related searches are high, their occurrences are low.
Click here to access the Google tool.