Mining social media streams to improve public health allergy surveillance

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 815-822

  Lee, Kathy ^a   Agrawal, Ankit ^a   Choudhary, Alok ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergy; Public health; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; HEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDIA STREAMING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BAG-OF-WORDS MODELS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; TWITTER;

ALLERGIES;

EID: 84962504309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2808797.2808896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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