Building a national neighborhood dataset from geotagged twitter data for indicators of happiness, diet, and physical activity

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Nguyen, Quynh C ^a   Li, Dapeng ^b   Meng, Hsien Wen ^a   Kath, Suraj ^c   Nsoesie, Elaine ^d   Li, Feifei ^c   Wen, Ming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c University of Utah   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Food; Happiness; Health behavior; Physical activity; Social media; Twitter messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018944404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.5869     Document Type: Article

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