Social media can predict the COVID-19 epidemic in China
Shengyu Liu,
Mingtao Ma,
Zhi Li
et al.
Abstract:Background:To investigate whether social media data can predict the prevalence of the COVID-19 epidemic and to compare the differences between the information on COVID-19 reflected in social media and the officially published information.
Methods:The Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 related data from Microblog (Sina Weibo) from November 30 to December 31,2022 were collected using a Weibo crawler with a total of 598,285 entries. Text clustering, spatio-temporal analysis and sentiment analysis we… Show more
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