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Can Social Web Help o Detect Influenza Related Illnesses in Turkey?

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Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;174:100-4.
Can Social Web Help o Detect Influenza Related Illnesses in Turkey?
Bilge U, Bozkurt S, Yolcular BO, Ozel D.
Source

Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Abstract

In this study, a content analysis of Twitter is carried out to determine the frequency of tweets mentioning influenza like illnesses (swine flu, cold etc.) and results have been compared with news articles, Google search trends and national health statistics in Turkey. Between 1st January 2009 and 31st December 2010, over 4,165 influenza-related Turkish posts on Twitter and 10,000 news articles in three leading Turkish newspaper websites containing influenza related keywords have been analyzed. No strong correlation has been found between influenza related online data and the real world records. Although there is no significant relationship, this study shows that there is a huge amount of data can be harvested from the social web applications such as Twitter.

PMID:
22491120
[PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22491120
 
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