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Abstract
Social media 'big data' can provide valuable insights about people's behaviors, such as their likelihood of engaging in risk behaviors or contracting a disease. Although in its infancy, advancing this research provides the promise of predicting health-related behaviors to promptly prepare for and respond to public health emergencies and epidemics.Entities:
Keywords: behavioral insights; big data; prediction; social media
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25438614 PMCID: PMC4364914 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.08.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Microbiol ISSN: 0966-842X Impact factor: 17.079