Get Up And Do Something: Predicting The Influence Of Lifestyle On Health Through Twitter

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Predicting The Influence Of Lifestyle On Health Through Twitter Feb 14th 2013, 11:57 Researchers at the University of Rochester showed last year how Twitter can be used to predict how likely it is for a Twitter user to become sick. They have now used Twitter to model how other factors - social status, exposure to pollution, interpersonal interaction and others - influence health. "If you want to know, down to the individual level, how many people are sick in a population, you would have to survey the population, which is costly and time-consuming," said Adam Sadilek, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rochester. "Twitter and the technology we have developed allow us to do this passively, quickly and inexpensively; we can listen in to what people are saying and mine this data to make predictions." Sadilek also explained that many tweets are geo-tagged, which means they carry GPS information that shows exactly where the user was when he or she tweeted.

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