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You Are What You Tweet: Analyzing Twitter for Public Health

Published on Aug 18, 20115430 Views

Analyzing user messages in social media can measure different population characteristics, including public health measures. For example, recent work has correlated Twitter messages with influenza r

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You are what you tweet: analyzing twitter for public health00:00
Research question00:05
Mining health trends00:23
Related work (1)01:56
Related work (2)02:27
A general approach02:45
Part 1: Modeling health tweets03:28
Training corpus04:20
Categorizing tweets05:07
Unsupervised topic models06:00
A model for health in twitter06:34
ATAM08:23
Labeling ailments09:35
Ailments: example output10:04
Part 2: analyzing ailments10:55
Flu trends redux11:54
Richer model12:17
Geographic surveillance12:37
Allergies - February13:13
Allergies - April13:58
Allergies - June14:30
Allergies -August14:40
Self-reported medication usage15:13
Pain relief meds15:50
Allergy meds16:51
Other analyses17:31
Looking forward18:10
Thank you19:21