About the Authors
- James Kaufman
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* E-mail: jhkauf@us.ibm.com
Affiliation IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, United States of America
- Justin Lessler
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- April Harry
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Current address: Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
Affiliation IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, United States of America
- Stefan Edlund
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Affiliation IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, United States of America
- Kun Hu
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Affiliation IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, United States of America
- Judith Douglas
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Affiliation IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, United States of America
- Christian Thoens
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Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
- Bernd Appel
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Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
- Annemarie Käsbohrer
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Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
- Matthias Filter
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Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
SE, KH, JD, and JK are paid employees of IBM Almaden Research Center. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SE KH JK. Performed the experiments: KH MF CT SE AH. Analyzed the data: BA CT KH AH AK JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SE AH JK MF CT JL. Wrote the paper: SE KH JD JK. Preprocessed/organized raw food sales data: CT BA AK. Designed/wrote algorithm: SE. Planned/clustered data: AH CT. Proposed use of retail data with public health data: JK.