Can social web help to detect influenza related illnesses in Turkey?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 174, Issue , 2012, Pages 100-104

  Bilge, Ugur ^a   Bozkurt, Selen ^a   Yolcular, Basak Oguz ^a   Ozel, Deniz ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Flu epidemic; Influenza like illnesses; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DISEASES;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; FLU EPIDEMICS; INFLUENZA LIKE ILLNESSES; NEWSPAPER WEBSITES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL WEB APPLICATIONS; STRONG CORRELATION; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ARTICLE; DATA MINING; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INTERNET; PUBLICATION; SEARCH ENGINE; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VITAL STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BLOGGING; DATA MINING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NEWSPAPERS; SEARCH ENGINE; TURKEY; VITAL STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84864514209     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-052-9-100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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