Real-Time disease surveillance using twitter data:Demonstration on flu and cancer

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn Part F128815, Issue , 2013, Pages 1474-1477

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

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Disease detection; Disease surveillance; Epidemics; Inuenza; Public health; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CANCER; DISEASE DETECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMICS; INUENZA; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

DISEASES;

EID: 85016706295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487575.2487709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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