Table 7.
Summary of statistical and machine learning methods and data sources for geographic identification using Twitter data.
| Public Health Issue | Method | Complementary Data |
|---|---|---|
| Depression | Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (Nmf) [70] | |
| Dengue | Time-Series Susceptible-Infected-Recovered Model [103], Dbscan (Clustering) [21] | Brazilian Health Ministry |
| Obesity | Dbscan (Clustering) [54] | |
| Miscellaneous | Latent Dirichlet Allocation [105], Support Vector Machine [105,106], Bayesian Inference [105], Random Forest [105], Multilayer Perceptron [105], Gaussian Mixture Regression (GMR) [102], HDBSCAN (Clustering) [106] | Map data |