On the ground validation of online diagnosis with twitter and medical records

WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 651-656

  Bodnar, Todd ^a   Barclay, Victoria C ^a   Ram, Nilam ^a   Tucker, Conrad S ^a   Salathé, Marcel ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital epidemiology; Remote diagno sis; Twitter; Validation

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANOMALY DETECTION; GROUND VALIDATIONS; INDIVIDUAL LEVELS; ON-LINE DIAGNOSIS; POPULATION LEVELS; STRONG CORRELATION; TWITTER; VALIDATION;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84977841553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2567948.2579272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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