Mining twitter data for influenza detection and surveillance

Proceedings - International Workshop on Software Engineering in Healthcare Systems, SEHS 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 43-49

  Byrd, Kenny ^a   Mansurov, Alisher ^b   Baysal, Olga ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold symptoms; Data mining; Flu; Public health surveillance; Sentiment analysis; Social media; Visualization tool

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COLD SYMPTOMS; HIGH-ACCURACY; INTERACTIVE MAPS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84974625338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2897683.2897693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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