Social Media Data Analysis for Public Health: Methods, Techniques and Real World Cases

Dear Colleagues,

The amount of information available online is increasing every day, and new tools, architectures, and approaches for dealing with such a large amount of data are necessary. Moreover, one of the areas where the amount of information is growing rapidly is in social networks, where social media content is being produced at an extreme speed. In these social media forums, the users can talk about anything, including topics related to medicine and healthcare. We require new approaches to dealing with this kind of information to be transformed into actionable knowledge. In a connected world, the information provided in social media can help to determine new public health policies and actions.

This Special Issue aims to bring together works focused on the application of real-world use cases, scenarios, and approaches that take advantage of the creation and consumption of health-related information in social media for the public health sector.

Dr. Alejandro Rodríguez González
Dr. José Alberto Benítez Andrades
Dr. Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez
Guest Editors

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