Table 1.
Summary of the used data sets in the reviewed studies
| Method category | Method name | Study reference | SNS | Language | Timeframe | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graph data mining | Graph data mining | [23] | English | Oct 2008 - March 2009 | US | |
| Text mining | Historical patterns | [45] | ||||
| Co-occurrences | [44] | English | March 2009 - Jul 2009 | |||
| Topic models | ATAM | [46] | English | May 2009 - Oct 2010 | US | |
| ATAM+ | [47] | English | May 2009 - Oct 2010 | US | ||
| HFSTM | [48] | Dec 2012 - Jan 2014 | South America | |||
| Machine learning | Neural network | [61] | Jun 2009 - Dec 2009 | UK | ||
| SVM | [57] | English | Sep 2012 - May 2013 | US | ||
| [56] | Nov 2008 - Jun 2010 | Japan | ||||
| [59] | Portuguese | March 2010 - Feb 2012 | Portugal | |||
| [58] | Chinese Sina | Chinese | Sep 2013 - Dec 2013 | China | ||
| [60] | English | May 2009 - Oct 2010 | US | |||
| [55] | English | Nov 2011 - Feb 2015 | US | |||
| Prediction market using SVR | [64] | April 2009 - Jun 2009 | ||||
| Naive Bayes | [63] | English | Oct 2015 - Nov 2015 | Ottawa | ||
| Math/Statistical models | SNEFT | [67] | Oct 2009 - Oct 2010 | |||
| ACF | [65] | English | Aug 2008 - Sep 2008 | |||
| Numerical-based analysis (SEHA using BOW) | [68] | |||||
| Mechanistic disease models | Metpopulation model | [70] | 2014-2015, 2015-2016 | US, Spain, Italy | ||
| Compartmental model | [35] | Dec 2012 - Jan 2014 | South America | |||
| Agent-based model | [73] | |||||
| Keys/Documents filtration | Keys/Documents filtration | [74] | English | Sep 2009 - May 2010 | US |