Mining Social Media Data for Biomedical Signals and Health-Related Behavior

Posted: 31 Jul 2020

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Rion Brattig Correia

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing

Ian B. Wood

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing

Johan Bollen

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing

Luis M. Rocha

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing

Date Written: July 1, 2020

Abstract

Social media data have been increasingly used to study biomedical and health-related phenomena. From cohort-level discussions of a condition to population-level analyses of sentiment, social media have provided scientists with unprecedented amounts of data to study human behavior associated with a variety of health conditions and medical treatments. Here we review recent work in mining social media for biomedical, epidemiological, and social phenomena information relevant to the multilevel complexity of human health. We pay particular attention to topics where social media data analysis has shown the most progress, including pharmacovigilance and sentiment analysis, especially for mental health. We also discuss a variety of innovative uses of social media data for health-related applications as well as important limitations of social media data access and use.

Suggested Citation

Correia, Rion Brattig and Wood, Ian B. and Bollen, Johan and Rocha, Luis M., Mining Social Media Data for Biomedical Signals and Health-Related Behavior (July 1, 2020). Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, Vol. 3, pp. 433-458, 2020, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3658964 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-030320-040844

Rion Brattig Correia (Contact Author)

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing ( email )

Informatics West, Room 204
901 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47408
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Ian B. Wood

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing

Informatics West, Room 204
901 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47408
United States

Johan Bollen

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing ( email )

901 E 10th St
Bloomington, IN 47401
United States

Luis M. Rocha

Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing ( email )

Informatics West, Room 204
901 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47408
United States

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