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ElasticSearch Blueprints

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ElasticSearch Blueprints

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Elasticsearch Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Ebola outbreak


In 2014, the world witnessed the outbreak of a dangerous epidemic called Ebola. When the Ebola outbreak first started, scientists all over the world started studying the disease. They were not very sure about the disease name nor what it was named, but they were aware that a disease has appeared and they also knew some of its symptoms. A biotechnology scientist in America wanted to learn about the outbreak of this disease and wanted to learn its patterns. For that reason, he obtained the medical records from various African hospitals where the disease was reported. He knew the symptoms of this new born disease and wanted to see the medical records in order to find the records that most probably contained the symptoms of the disease, which we now know as Ebola.

A medical record from the hospitals had the following information:

  • Title: An unstructured single line of text giving the title of the description.

  • Description: A detailed analysis of the disease, symptoms, patient...