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Relevance Of Health-Related Hashtags On Twitter: A Text Mining Approach, Mauli Dalal, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson
Relevance Of Health-Related Hashtags On Twitter: A Text Mining Approach, Mauli Dalal, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson
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BACKGROUND
Social media platforms facilitate user interaction and impact decision making. Users prefer to use hashtags while sharing posts. Knowing the sentiment towards diabetes, bloodpressure, and obesity is fundamental to understanding the impact of these information on patients and their families. The study seeks to determine the relevance of health-related hashtags on Twitter and analyze sentiments about diabetes, obesity, blood pressure.
METHOD
Tweets were retrieved using synonyms for “diabetes”, “hypertension” and “obesity”. The extended knowledge discovery in data mining (KDDM) model guided our research with research objectives defined in the ‘research problem understanding’ phase. The ‘information seeking’ from Uses and …