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On the ground validation of online diagnosis with Twitter and medical records

Bodnar, Todd
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Barclay, Victoria
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Ram, Nilam
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2014
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web
23rd International World Wide Web Conference

Social media has been considered as a data source for tracking disease. However, most analyses are based on models that prioritize strong correlation with population-level disease rates over determining whether or not specific individual users are actually sick. Taking a different approach, we develop a novel system for social-media based disease detection at the individual level using a sample of professionally diagnosed individuals. Specifically, we develop a system for making an accurate influenza diagnosis based on an individual's publicly available Twitter data. We find that about half (17/35 = 48.57%) of the users in our sample that were sick explicitly discuss their disease on Twitter. By developing a meta classifier that combines text analysis, anomaly detection, and social network analysis, we are able to diagnose an individual with greater than 99% accuracy even if she does not discuss her health

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/2567948.2579272
Author(s)
Bodnar, Todd
Barclay, Victoria
Ram, Nilam
Tucker, Conrad
Salathé, Marcel  
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

ACM

Publisher place

Geneva

Published in
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web
ISBN of the book

978-1-4503-2745-9

Start page

651

End page

656

Editorial or Peer reviewed

NON-REVIEWED

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OTHER

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UPSALATHE1  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
23rd International World Wide Web Conference

Seoul, Korea

April 7-11, 2014

Available on Infoscience
December 10, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/121586
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