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- Twitter API to extract Medical tweets. (Using Tweety API)
- Trying to extract a live stream of tweets with the words - Medical, Doctor, Hospital.
- Extract a live stream for Hashtags in the list provided at http://www.symplur.com/healthcare-hashtags/
- Understand Twitter API Limits.
- Working on getting the project rolling
- Creating collaboration documents
- Creating a task list
Medical hashtags' dictionary could potentially be used to ease the problem of discovering medical tweets.
Example resource :
http://www.symplur.com/healthcare-hashtags/
We hope to correlate our findings to government data sources collected over the years. Some examples included below :
- Arizona Reported Disease by county (2000-2010)
- Arizona Disease related deaths by County (2000-2010) - http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/report/ahs/ahs2010/t3a.htm
- Counts of Incident Cancer in the state of Arizona - http://healthdata.az.gov/query/module_selection/azcr/AzCRSelection.html
- Medicare Government data for St. Joseph Hospital at Arizona - http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/profile.aspx#profTab=1&ID=030024&loc=PHOENIX2C20AZ&lat=33.4483771&lng=-112.0740373