Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania
Text-mining Social Media to Study Mental and Physical
Well-being
Lyle Ungar University of Pennsylvania
What psychological factors drive well-being? And how can social media measure them?
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<collaborators> u Add andy
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Method
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Predict and understand well-being
u Individual personality and well-being l 70,000 Facebook users posts l age, sex, personality questionnaire results
u Community well-being l Billions of tweets, mapped to county l County-level happiness and disease rates
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Males
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Females
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Twitter predicts SWL
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Twitter Predicts CVD
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Predictors of CVD
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Twitter predicts CVD
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Thank you!!! Questions?
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