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Crowdsourcing Health Labels: Inferring Body Weight from Profile Pictures
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2016
arXiv
pre-print
To use social media for health-related analysis, one key step is the detection of health-related labels for users. But unlike transient conditions like flu, social media users are less vocal about chronic conditions such as obesity, as users might not tweet "I'm still overweight". As, however, obesity-related conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis, and even cancer are on the rise, this obese-or-not label could be one of the most useful for studies in public health. In this
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