You Are What You Tweet: Analyzing Twitter for Public Health

Published on 2011-08-185443 Views

Michael J. Paul

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

ICWSM 2011 - Barcelona

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Web & Behavior Mining

Presentation

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