Big data's role in precision public health

S Dolley - Frontiers in public health, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Precision public health is an emerging practice to more granularly predict and understand
public health risks and customize treatments for more specific and homogeneous …

Sentiment analysis of Twitter data during critical events through Bayesian networks classifiers

GA Ruz, PA Henríquez, A Mascareño - Future Generation Computer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sentiment analysis through machine learning using Twitter data has become a popular topic
in recent years. Here we address the problem of sentiment analysis during critical events …

Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data

AG Reece, AJ Reagan, KLM Lix, PS Dodds… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We developed computational models to predict the emergence of depression and Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder in Twitter users. Twitter data and details of depression history …

Weather impacts expressed sentiment

P Baylis, N Obradovich, Y Kryvasheyeu, H Chen… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
We conduct the largest ever investigation into the relationship between meteorological
conditions and the sentiment of human expressions. To do this, we employ over three and a …

Narrative review of social media as a research tool for diet and weight loss

JR Hawks, H Madanat, ER Walsh-Buhi… - Computers in Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
This narrative review examined the following research questions: 1) What are the
characteristics and outcomes of social media-based diet/weight loss studies to date? 2) …

Generalized word shift graphs: a method for visualizing and explaining pairwise comparisons between texts

RJ Gallagher, MR Frank, L Mitchell, AJ Schwartz… - EPJ Data …, 2021 - epjds.epj.org
A common task in computational text analyses is to quantify how two corpora differ
according to a measurement like word frequency, sentiment, or information content …

Tweeting weight loss: A comparison of# thinspiration and# fitspiration communities on Twitter

M Tiggemann, O Churches, L Mitchell, Z Brown - Body image, 2018 - Elsevier
Thinspiration and fitspiration represent contemporary online trends designed to inspire
viewers towards the thin ideal or towards health and fitness respectively. The aim of the …

[PDF][PDF] Sentiment analysis methods for understanding large-scale texts: a case for using continuum-scored words and word shift graphs

AJ Reagan, CM Danforth, B Tivnan, JR Williams… - EPJ Data Science, 2017 - Springer
The emergence and global adoption of social media has rendered possible the real-time
estimation of population-scale sentiment, an extraordinary capacity which has profound …

Plastic surgery and social media: examining perceptions

M Chopan, L Sayadi, EM Clark… - Plastic and reconstructive …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: Social media play an important role in plastic surgery, yet there are limited
studies in the literature to guide plastic surgeons' social networking practices. To address …

A sentiment analysis of breast cancer treatment experiences and healthcare perceptions across twitter

EM Clark, T James, CA Jones, A Alapati… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Background: Social media has the capacity to afford the healthcare industry with valuable
feedback from patients who reveal and express their medical decision-making process, as …