Validating models for disease detection using twitter

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 699-702

  Bodnar, Todd ^a   Salathé, Marcel ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Machine learning; Regression; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISEASES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISEASE DETECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GROUND TRUTH DATA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LARGE AMOUNTS; MACHINE-LEARNING; REGRESSION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; TWITTER;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84891758338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2488027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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