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Large, survey-based studies are a slow, expensive way to collect rigorous public health data. New research, focusing on alcohol use, shows that mining Twitter and online searches could enable public health professionals to get immediate, localized insights, spot emerging trends, and even measure the...

Collecting rigorous public health data through large survey-based studies is a slow, expensive process. New research from Boston Children's Hospital shows that mining people's alcohol-related tweets and online searches offers a more immediate, localized information source to complement traditional...

Read more here: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/bch-anw120219.php and here: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-nimbler-track-alcohol-useby-twit…