Predicting flu epidemics using Twitter and historical data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8609 LNAI, Issue , 2014, Pages 164-177

  Stilo, Giovanni ^a   Velardi, Paola ^a   Tozzi, Alberto E ^b   Gesualdo, Francesco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

epidemiological surveillance; predictability of health related phenomena; Twitter mining

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; MONITORING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FLU EPIDEMICS; HISTORICAL DATA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PREDICTABILITY OF HEALTH-RELATED PHENOMENA; PREDICTING CURRENTS; PREDICTION MODEL; SOCIAL DATUM;

HEALTH;

EID: 84905252466     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09891-3_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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