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An Exploratory Study of COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter
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2020
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We have conducted an exploratory study into the propagation, authors and content of misinformation on Twitter around the topic of COVID-19 in order to gain early insights. ...
Exploratory analysis of author accounts revealed that the verified twitter handle(including Organisation/celebrity) are also involved in either creating (new tweets) or spreading (retweet) the misinformation ...
We thus conduct an exploratory analysis into (1) the Twitter accounts behind COVID-19 misinformation, (2) the propagation of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter, and (3) the content of incorrect claims ...
arXiv:2005.05710v2
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What Are People Tweeting about Zika? An Exploratory Study Concerning Symptoms, Treatment, Transmission, and Prevention
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2017
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Five topics for each category were found and discussed with a focus on the symptoms category. ...
A combination of natural language processing and machine learning techniques were used to determine what people are tweeting about Zika. ...
In this study we conduct an exploratory analysis of finding the subcategories of discussion topics from Zika related tweets; specifically in four key characteristics of Zika: symptoms, transmission, treatment ...
arXiv:1701.07490v1
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What Are People Tweeting About Zika? An Exploratory Study Concerning Its Symptoms, Treatment, Transmission, and Prevention
2017
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
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Conclusions: We demonstrate how categories of discussion on Twitter about an epidemic can be discovered so that public health officials can understand specific societal concerns within the disease-specific ...
Future studies can capture sentiments and opinions on epidemic outbreaks like Zika virus in real time, which will likely inform efforts to educate the public at large. ...
In this study, an exploratory analysis focused on finding important subcategories of discussion topics from Zika-related tweets was performed. ...
doi:10.2196/publichealth.7157
pmid:28630032
pmcid:PMC5495967
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Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter
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2020
arXiv
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We hereby present an analysis of the discourse around #Covid-19, based on a corpus of 200k tweets posted on Twitter during March and April 2020. ...
Cities are locked down and civilians are besieged in their own homes, to prevent the spreading of the virus. ...
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General design of the 3 studies In Study 1 we explored the range of topics addressed in the discourse on Covid-19 on Twitter. To do so, we used a topic modelling technique. ...
arXiv:2004.06986v1
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Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter
2020
PLoS ONE
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We hereby present an analysis of the discourse around #Covid-19, based on a large corpus tweets posted on Twitter during March and April 2020. ...
Cities are locked down and civilians are besieged in their own homes, to prevent the spreading of the virus. ...
Study design To address our three research questions, first we explored the range of topics addressed in the discourse on Covid-19 on Twitter using a topic modelling technique. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240010
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Covid-19 Discourse on Twitter: How the Topics, Sentiments, Subjectivity, and Figurative Frames Changed Over Time
2021
Frontiers in Communication
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This paper provides an extensive explorative analysis of how the discourse about Covid-19 reported on Twitter changes through time, focusing on the first wave of this pandemic. ...
Based on an extensive corpus of tweets (produced between 20th March and 1st July 2020) first we show how the topics associated with the development of the pandemic changed through time, using topic modeling ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank Johannes Wiesner and Christian Burgers for their advice on statistical analysis. ...
doi:10.3389/fcomm.2021.651997
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Pedagogical Demonstration of Twitter Data Analysis: A Case Study of World AIDS Day, 2014
2019
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This study examined if Twitter users from countries with various income levels responded differently to World AIDS Day. ...
As a pedagogical demonstration of Twitter data analysis, a case study of HIV/AIDS-related tweets around World AIDS Day, 2014, was presented. ...
Discussion This case study serves as a pedagogical demonstration of how public health graduate students could be taught statistical and text mining techniques for analyzing Twitter data. ...
doi:10.3390/data4020084
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Public Discussion of Anthrax on Twitter: Using Machine Learning to Identify Relevant Topics and Events
2021
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
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Objective The objective of this study was to detect discussions on anthrax-related events and to determine the relevance of the tweets and topics of discussion over 12 months of data collection. ...
Social media allows researchers to study opinions and reactions to events in real time. One area needing more study is anthrax-related events. ...
We would also like to thank Dr Tanvi Banerjee for consultation on machine learning and Dr Dawn Wooley for her suggestions on the manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest None declared. ...
doi:10.2196/27976
pmid:34142975
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Twitter and Research: A Systematic Literature Review Through Text Mining
2020
IEEE Access
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This study systematically mines a large number of Twitter-based studies to characterize the relevant literature by an efficient and effective approach. ...
Researchers have collected Twitter data to study a wide range of topics. This growing body of literature, however, has not yet been reviewed systematically to synthesize Twitter-related papers. ...
Text mining techniques can provide exploratory analysis to detect semantic patterns [33] . ...
doi:10.1109/access.2020.2983656
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An exploratory study of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter
2021
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We have conducted an exploratory study into the propagation, authors and content of misinformation on Twitter around the topic of COVID-19 in order to gain early insights. ...
Exploratory analysis of author accounts revealed that the verified twitter handle(including Organisation/celebrity) are also involved in either creating(new tweets) or spreading(retweet) the misinformation ...
We thus conduct an exploratory analysis into (1) the Twitter accounts behind COVID-19 misinformation, (2) the propagation of COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter, and (3) the content of incorrect claims ...
doi:10.1016/j.osnem.2020.100104
pmid:33623836
pmcid:PMC7893249
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Eating Garlic Prevents COVID-19 Infection: Detecting Misinformation on the Arabic Content of Twitter
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2021
arXiv
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Therefore, there is an urgent need for fact-checking and effective techniques for detecting misinformation in social media. In this work, we study the misinformation in the Arabic content of Twitter. ...
Majchrzak, “An exploratory study of covid-19 misinformation on twitter,”
arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05710, 2020.
[31] L. McQuillan, E. McAweeney, A. Bargar, and A. ...
Another study in [37] deploys machine learning techniques on Twitter misinfor-
mation using ensemble techniques based on user level and tweet level features. ...
arXiv:2101.05626v1
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Discovering explanatory models to identify relevant tweets on Zika
2017
2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
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Zika virus has caught the worlds attention, and has led people to share their opinions and concerns on social media like Twitter. ...
Moreover, key features were identified that provide deeper insights on the content of tweets relevant to Zika. ...
Recently, we performed an exploratory study using Zika related tweets to determine what people were tweeting about Zika [8] . Tweets were collected over a period of 2 months. ...
doi:10.1109/embc.2017.8037044
pmid:29060089
dblp:conf/embc/MuppallaMBR17
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Predicting COVID-19 incidence using Google Trends and data mining techniques: A pilot study in Iran (Preprint)
2020
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
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The Linear Regression model predicts the incidence with an RMSE of 7.562 ± 6.492. ...
This study is aimed to predict the incidence of COVID-19 in Iran. The data is obtained from the Google Trend website. ...
In 2017, McGough et al [14] also proposed a Zika virus prediction system by using Zika-related Google searches, Twitter microblogs, and a digital surveillance system. ...
doi:10.2196/18828
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Computational Intelligence-Based Model for Exploring Individual Perception on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Saudi Arabia
2022
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
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Vaccination is an effective way to combat this virus and prevent its spreading among individuals. ...
The primary objective of this study is to analyse the public awareness and opinion toward the vaccination process and to develop a model that predicts the awareness and acceptability of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines ...
the society's opinion about any topic than to form a new one; 86% of users who discussed pseudoscientific claims about the Zika vaccine have discussed the vaccination earlier in 2015 and 19% of them delivered ...
doi:10.1155/2022/6722427
pmid:35401714
pmcid:PMC8984742
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Big data analytics as a tool for fighting pandemics: a systematic review of literature
2020
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
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Big Data, as well as Big Data Analytics techniques, have been addressed in this context with the possibility of predicting, mapping, tracking, monitoring, and raising awareness about these epidemics and ...
The most common techniques for analyzing these data involve the use of statistics, such as correlation and regression, combined with other techniques. ...
Acknowledgements The present study was carried out with support from the Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination-Brazil (CAPES)-Financing Code 001. ...
doi:10.1007/s12652-020-02617-4
pmid:33144892
pmcid:PMC7595572
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