Behavioral insights on big data: using social media for predicting biomedical outcomes

• Autores: Sean D. Young
• Localización: Trends in microbiology, ISSN 0966-842X, Vol. 22, Nº. 11, 2014, págs. 601-602
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.