Table 1.
Total number of users, posts, and average sentences length for each source.
Dataset | Users, n | Posts, n | Average sentence length (in words) |
TwitterHealth [16] | 5,095,849 | 11,637,888 | 10.82 |
Google+Health [17] | 86,749 | 186,666 | 9.03 |
Drugs.com [18] | 74,461 | 74,461 | 13.85 |
DailyStrength/Treatments [19] | 213,524 | 1,055,603 | 11.92 |
WebMD/Drugs [20] | 122,040 | 122,040 | 13.53 |
Drugs.com/Answers [21] | 201,126 | 5,948,877 | 6.59 |
DailyStrength/Forums [22] | 165,045 | 1,128,629 | 13.2 |
WebMD [23] | 155,912 | 320,118 | 15.37 |