Using Twitter to Measure Public Discussion of Diseases: A Case Study

Using Twitter to Measure Public Discussion of Diseases: A Case Study

BackgroundTwitter is increasingly used to estimate disease prevalence, but such measurements can be biased, due to both biased sampling and inherent ambiguity of natural language. ObjectiveWe characterized the extent of these biases and how they vary with disease....

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Main Authors: Weeg, Christopher, Schwartz, H Andrew, Hill, Shawndra, Merchant, Raina M, Arango, Catalina, Ungar, Lyle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2015-06-01
Series:JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Online Access:http://publichealth.jmir.org/2015/1/e6/

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