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JoonL edited this page May 15, 2013 · 1 revision

This is a sample. Please elaborate on this document and put in all contributions including and not limited to Code contributed, analysis summary, Questions / Ideas put forward, Useful resources etc.

Currently working on :

  1. Twitter API to extract Medical tweets. (Using Tweety API) a) Trying to extract a live stream of tweets with the words - Medical, Doctor, Hospital. b) Extract a live stream for Hashtags in the list provided at http://www.symplur.com/healthcare-hashtags/
  2. Understand Twitter API Limits.
  3. Working on getting the project rolling
  4. Creating collaboration documents
  5. Creating a task list

Ideas Contributed : Medical hashtags' dictionary could potentially be used to ease the problem of discovering medical tweets.

Example resource : http://www.symplur.com/healthcare-hashtags/

Some Resources : 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

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