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Bacon Bacon Bacon: Food-Related Tweets and Sentiment in Metro Detroit

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V. G. Vydiswaran,Daniel Romero,Xinyan Zhao,Deahan Yu,Iris Gomez-Lopez,Jin Lu,Bradley Iott,Ana Baylin,Philippa Clarke,Veronica Berrocal,Robert Goodspeed,Tiffany Veinot

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Abstract:

Initiatives to reduce neighborhood-based health disparities require access to meaningful, timely, and local information regarding health behavior and its determinants. In this paper, we examine the validity of Twitter as a source of information for analysis of dietary patterns and attitudes. We analyze the "healthiness" quotient of food-related tweets and sentiment regarding those tweets from metropolitan Detroit. Our findings demonstrate feasibility of using Twitter to understand neighborhood characteristics regarding food attitudes and potential use in studying neighborhood-based health disparities.

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10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15060


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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2018): Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media