Social media enables the public sharing of information. With the recent emphasis on
transparency and the open sharing of information between doctors and patients, the …

Public health practitioners and researchers have used traditional medical databases to
study and understand public health for a long time. Recently, social media data, particularly …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented mitigation efforts that disrupted
the daily lives of millions. Beyond the general health repercussions of the pandemic itself …

Our ability to collect “big data” has greatly surpassed our capability to analyze it,
underscoring the emergence of the fourth paradigm of science, which is datadriven …

The role of social media, in particular microblogging platforms such as Twitter, as a conduit
for actionable and tactical information during disasters is increasingly acknowledged …

The social media platforms are considered an ecosystem of social sensors where each
social media platform user is treated as a social sensor cloud. To overcome the limitations of …

Psychological stress is threatening people's health. It is non-trivial to detect stress timely for
proactive care. With the popularity of social media, people are used to sharing their daily …

Background The popularity and proliferation of online social networks (OSNs) have created
massive social interaction among users that generate an extensive amount of data. An OSN …

Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

Abstract Machine learning is one of the driving forces of science and commerce, but the
proliferation of Big Data demands paradigm shifts from traditional methods in the application …