Table 1 Sensitivity, Precision, and F1 Score for different digital traces (Google Trends, Twitter, and combined of both) as an early indicator for an onset of “up-trends” in COVID-19 gold standards (Confirmed cases, Deaths, and Hospitalization).

From: Development of an early alert model for pandemic situations in Germany

Gold standard

Google trends

Twitter

Combined

Sensitivity

Precision

F1 score

Sensitivity

Precision

F1 score

Sensitivity

Precision

F1 score

Confirmed cases

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.4

0.57

0.47

0.5

0.71

0.59

Deaths

0.5

0.4

0.44

0.25

0.29

0.27

0.25

0.29

0.27

Hospitalization

0.44

0.4

0.42

0.33

0.43

0.38

0.33

0.43

0.38