Analysis of Twitter posts could provide fresh insight into mental illness trends
December 9, 2014
Using algorithm, Johns Hopkins collect data on post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, seasonal affective disorder.
Using algorithm, Johns Hopkins collect data on post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, seasonal affective disorder.
In 2009, two computer scientists at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University got access to a trove of Tweets — some 2 billion posted between May 2009 and October 2010 — and decided to find a way to analyze them.