Inferring Travel from Social Media
Alessio Signorini <alessio-signorini@uiowa.edu> Alberto Maria Segre <alberto-segre@uiowa.edu> Philip Polgreen <philip-polgreen@uiowa.edu>
Inferring Travel from Social Media Alessio Signorini - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Inferring Travel from Social Media Alessio Signorini <alessio-signorini@uiowa.edu> Alberto Maria Segre <alberto-segre@uiowa.edu> Philip Polgreen <philip-polgreen@uiowa.edu> ONCE UPON A TIME... H1N1 TWEET VOLUME CDC
Alessio Signorini <alessio-signorini@uiowa.edu> Alberto Maria Segre <alberto-segre@uiowa.edu> Philip Polgreen <philip-polgreen@uiowa.edu>
CDC recommends canceling travels plans Pandemic level raised to 5 Number of confirmed cases reach 1000
LAMBERT ALLEN
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More Positive Tweets about Kris Allen
% positive tweets days
09/40 09/41 09/42 09/43 09/44 09/45 09/46 09/47 09/48 09/49 09/50 09/51 09/52 10/01 10/02 10/03 10/04 10/05 10/06 10/07 10/08 10/09 10/10 10/11 10/12 10/13 10/14 10/15 10/16 10/17 10/18 10/19 10/20 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5
Reported vs. Predicted Weekly ILI%
Flu Season 2009-2010 - United States
% ILI
Predicted Reported
1-fold validation ~ error avg=0.28%, min=0.04%, max=0.93%. Std=0.23%
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CURRENT FLU MAP TRAVEL MODEL
CENSUS TRAFFIC TICKETS MONEY CELL PHONES
CENSUS TRAFFIC TICKETS MONEY CELL PHONES
CENSUS TRAFFIC TICKETS MONEY CELL PHONES
CENSUS TRAFFIC TICKETS MONEY CELL PHONES
CENSUS TRAFFIC TICKETS MONEY CELL PHONES
CENSUS TRAFFIC TICKETS MONEY CELL PHONES
STEVE JOBS
STEVE JOBS
CHECK-IN TO PLACES TO EARN BADGES TWEETS CAN BE GEO-LOCATED
RESTAURANT BAR DOCTOR GYM OFFICE STARBUCKS
Number of Locations
Number of Users
CASUAL USERS (<5 locations) TOO FREQUENT (>1 every 5 secs) TOO FAST (>1800 km/h)
0 < 1 mile 1 < 10 miles 10 < 100 miles 100 < 1000 miles 1000 < 10000 miles 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
50% 85% 97% 99% 100%
% Trips % Cumulative
10s 30s 1m 2m 5m 10m 15m 30m 1h 2h 6h 12h 1d 2d 1w 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16%
0% 1% 4% 8% 15% 21% 24% 31% 38% 46% 59% 69% 81% 89% 97%
% Trips % Cumulative
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
16% 16% 11% 14% 14% 17% 12% 19.8 18.5 22.3 20.8 22.0 21.2 21.6
% Trips Miles
6 AM 2 PM 8 PM
Alessio Signorini
alessio-signorini@uiowa.edu http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~asignori/
UIOWA Computational Epidemiology Group
http://compepi.cs.uiowa.edu paper and datasets will be soon available