Using twitter for public health surveillance from monitoring and prediction to public response

Data

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Jordan, Sophie E ^a   Hovet, Sierra E ^a   Fung, Isaac Chun Hai ^b   Liang, Hai ^c   Fu, King Wa ^d   Tse, Zion Tsz Ho ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Classification; Data mining; Ebola; Public health; Twitter; Zika

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; EBOLA; HEALTH CONDITION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTH RELATED INFORMATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCES; REAL- TIME; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; TWITTER; ZIKA;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85070935220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23065729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/data4010006     Document Type: Review

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