Digital Tool Details
epitweetr accessible at https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/epitweetr-tool
- Full Name: epitweetr
- Digital Tool Website: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/epitweetr-tool
- Description: epitweetr allows users to automatically monitor trends on Twitter to detect public health threats early. It can monitor trends by time, place and topic, and detect patterns such as an unusual increase in the number of tweets. It was designed to support public health experts with the early detection of threats from infectious diseases but can be extended to all hazards and other fields of study by using different topics and keywords.
- License: Open Source
- Format(s): ?
Success(es) attributed to the use of this tool
- The analysis of trends from social media by topic, time and place generates relevant signals for early detection. In 2019, ECDC developed a prototype of a manual R-based tool for the early detection of public health threats from Twitter data. The epitweetr package is an extension of this prototype, to allow a wider geolocation of tweets and greater automatisation, which first version was published in October 2020. Epitweetr has been shown to have an advantage over manually monitoring Twitter data in terms of being able to detect public health threats early. This type of tool has been shown to be useful to public health experts.
Data Types Collected
- Quantitative Yes
- Qualitative: Yes
- Geospatial: Yes
One Health Purposes
- Human Health Yes
- Animal Health: Yes
- Environmental: Unknown
Technology Features
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Mapping Dashboard
Yes
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Mobile Application:
Unknown
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Analysis Dashboards:
Yes
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Export Raw Data:
Yes
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Export Intepretation: Report
Yes
Utility Trees
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Accessibility
Open
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Maintainability:
Yes
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Scalability:
Yes
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Interoperability:
Yes
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Security:
Yes
Stakeholders associated with this tool
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