Predicting national suicide numbers with social media data.

Suicide is not only an individual phenomenon, but it is also influenced by social and environmental factors. With the high suicide rate and the abundance of social media data in South Korea, we have studied the potential of this new medium for predicting completed suicide at the population level. We...

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Main Authors: Hong-Hee Won, Woojae Myung, Gil-Young Song, Won-Hee Lee, Jong-Won Kim, Bernard J Carroll, Doh Kwan Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3632511?pdf=render