Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2010, 7(2), 596-615; doi:10.3390/ijerph7020596
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Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media

Courtney D. Corley 1,* email, Diane J. Cook 2 email, Armin R. Mikler 3 email and Karan P. Singh 4 email
1 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, WA 99352, USA 2 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, PO Box 642752 Pullman, Washington 99164, USA 3 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #311366 Denton, TX 76203, USA 4 Department of Biostatistics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 9 November 2009 / Accepted: 10 February 2010 / Published: 22 February 2010
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Health Informatics)
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Abstract: Text and structural data mining of web and social media (WSM) provides a novel disease surveillance resource and can identify online communities for targeted public health communications (PHC) to assure wide dissemination of pertinent information. WSM that mention influenza are harvested over a 24-week period, 5 October 2008 to 21 March 2009. Link analysis reveals communities for targeted PHC. Text mining is shown to identify trends in flu posts that correlate to real-world influenza-like illness patient report data. We also bring to bear a graph-based data mining technique to detect anomalies among flu blogs connected by publisher type, links, and user-tags.
Keywords: disease surveillance; public health epidemiology; health informatics; graph-based data mining; web and social media; social network analysis

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Corley, C.D.; Cook, D.J.; Mikler, A.R.; Singh, K.P. Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2010, 7, 596-615.

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Corley CD, Cook DJ, Mikler AR, Singh KP. Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2010; 7(2):596-615.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Corley, Courtney D.; Cook, Diane J.; Mikler, Armin R.; Singh, Karan P. 2010. "Text and Structural Data Mining of Influenza Mentions in Web and Social Media." Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 7, no. 2: 596-615.

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