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Text-mining Social Media to Study Mental and Physical Health
Start Date: 1/16/2015Start Time: 4:00 PM
End Date: 1/16/2015End Time: 5:30 PM

Event Description
Lyle Ungar, PhD, professor in computer and information science at The University of Pennsylvania, will discuss how the words people use on social media such as Twitter and Facebook provide a rich, if imperfect, source of information about their personality and psychological state. We use Facebook posts and personality test results from 75,000 volunteers to characterize how Facebook word use varies as a function of age, sex and personality. We also show that variation in word use in Tweets across US counties predicts subjective well-being ('happiness') and physical health (e.g., cardiovascular disease) variation across counties, above and beyond standard socio-economic status measures. For more info, please visit www.biomed.drexel.edu.
Contact Information:
Name: Ken Barbee
Phone: 215-895-1335
Email: barbee@drexel.edu
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Location:
Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB), Room 120, located at the corner of 33rd and Chestnut Streets.
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