Epicosm-a framework for linking online social media in epidemiological cohorts.
Int J Epidemiol
; 52(3): 952-957, 2023 06 06.
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| ID: mdl-36847716
ABSTRACT
MOTIVATION Social media represent an unrivalled opportunity for epidemiological cohorts to collect large amounts of high-resolution time course data on mental health. Equally, the high-quality data held by epidemiological cohorts could greatly benefit social media research as a source of ground truth for validating digital phenotyping algorithms. However, there is currently a lack of software for doing this in a secure and acceptable manner. We worked with cohort leaders and participants to co-design an open-source, robust and expandable software framework for gathering social media data in epidemiological cohorts. IMPLEMENTATION Epicosm is implemented as a Python framework that is straightforward to deploy and run inside a cohort's data safe haven. GENERAL FEATURES The software regularly gathers Tweets from a list of accounts and stores them in a database for linking to existing cohort data. AVAILABILITY:
This open-source software is freely available at [https//dynamicgenetics.github.io/Epicosm/].Palavras-chave
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Mídias Sociais
Limite:
Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2023
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