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Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media

Journal Article · · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7(2):596-615

Text and structural data mining of Web and social media (WSM) provides a novel disease surveillance resource and can identify online communities for targeted public health communications (PHC) to assure wide dissemination of pertinent information. WSM that mention influenza are harvested over a 24-week period, 5-October-2008 to 21-March-2009. Link analysis reveals communities for targeted PHC. Text mining is shown to identify trends in flu posts that correlate to real-world influenza-like-illness patient report data. We also bring to bear a graph-based data mining technique to detect anomalies among flu blogs connected by publisher type, links, and user-tags.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
978932
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-69450
Journal Information:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7(2):596-615, Journal Name: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 7(2):596-615 Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 7
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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