Spatio-temporal distribution of negative emotions in New York city after a natural disaster as seen in social media

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Gruebner, Oliver ^a,b   Lowe, Sarah R ^c   Sykora, Martin ^d   Shankardass, Ketan ^e   Subramanian, S V ^f   Galea, Sandro ^g  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced sentiment analysis; Digital epidemiology; Geo social media; Geographic information system; Hotspots; Post disaster mental health; Psychogeography; Spatial epidemiology; Spatial regimes regression; Twitter data

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; GIS; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTER; NEW YORK; SOCIAL MEDIA; DISASTER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HURRICANE; MALE; SPATIAL REGRESSION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTERS; NEW YORK CITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL REGRESSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85055074717     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15102275     Document Type: Article

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