File Download

There are no files associated with this item.

  Links for fulltext
     (May Require Subscription)
Supplementary

Article: Leveraging geotagged Twitter data to examine neighborhood happiness, diet, and physical activity

TitleLeveraging geotagged Twitter data to examine neighborhood happiness, diet, and physical activity
Authors
KeywordsDiet
Food
Happiness
Neighborhood
Physical activity
Twitter messaging
Issue Date2016
Citation
Applied Geography, 2016, v. 73, p. 77-88 How to Cite?
AbstractObjectives: Using publicly available, geotagged Twitter data, we created neighborhood indicators for happiness, food and physical activity for three large counties: Salt Lake, San Francisco and New York. Methods: We utilize 2.8 million tweets collected between February-August 2015 in our analysis. Geo-coordinates of where tweets were sent allow us to spatially join them to 2010 census tract locations. We implemented quality control checks and tested associations between Twitter-derived variables and sociodemographic characteristics. Results: For a random subset of tweets, manually labeled tweets and algorithm labeled tweets had excellent levels of agreement: 73% for happiness; 83% for food, and 85% for physical activity. Happy tweets, healthy food references, and physical activity references were less frequent in census tracts with greater economic disadvantage and higher proportions of racial/ethnic minorities and youths. Conclusions: Social media can be leveraged to provide greater understanding of the well-being and health behaviors of communities-information that has been previously difficult and expensive to obtain consistently across geographies. More open access neighborhood data can enable better design of programs and policies addressing social determinants of health.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/323978
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 4.0
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.204
ISI Accession Number ID

 

DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Quynh C.-
dc.contributor.authorKath, Suraj-
dc.contributor.authorMeng, Hsien Wen-
dc.contributor.authorLi, Dapeng-
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Ken R.-
dc.contributor.authorVanDerslice, James A.-
dc.contributor.authorWen, Ming-
dc.contributor.authorLi, Feifei-
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-13T03:00:39Z-
dc.date.available2023-01-13T03:00:39Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.citationApplied Geography, 2016, v. 73, p. 77-88-
dc.identifier.issn0143-6228-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/323978-
dc.description.abstractObjectives: Using publicly available, geotagged Twitter data, we created neighborhood indicators for happiness, food and physical activity for three large counties: Salt Lake, San Francisco and New York. Methods: We utilize 2.8 million tweets collected between February-August 2015 in our analysis. Geo-coordinates of where tweets were sent allow us to spatially join them to 2010 census tract locations. We implemented quality control checks and tested associations between Twitter-derived variables and sociodemographic characteristics. Results: For a random subset of tweets, manually labeled tweets and algorithm labeled tweets had excellent levels of agreement: 73% for happiness; 83% for food, and 85% for physical activity. Happy tweets, healthy food references, and physical activity references were less frequent in census tracts with greater economic disadvantage and higher proportions of racial/ethnic minorities and youths. Conclusions: Social media can be leveraged to provide greater understanding of the well-being and health behaviors of communities-information that has been previously difficult and expensive to obtain consistently across geographies. More open access neighborhood data can enable better design of programs and policies addressing social determinants of health.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofApplied Geography-
dc.subjectDiet-
dc.subjectFood-
dc.subjectHappiness-
dc.subjectNeighborhood-
dc.subjectPhysical activity-
dc.subjectTwitter messaging-
dc.titleLeveraging geotagged Twitter data to examine neighborhood happiness, diet, and physical activity-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.06.003-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-84976389296-
dc.identifier.volume73-
dc.identifier.spage77-
dc.identifier.epage88-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000381593000008-

Export via OAI-PMH Interface in XML Formats


OR


Export to Other Non-XML Formats