You Are What You Tweet: Connecting the Geographic Variation in America's Obesity Rate to Twitter Content.

We conduct a detailed investigation of the relationship among the obesity rate of urban areas and expressions of happiness, diet and physical activity on social media. We do so by analyzing a massive, geo-tagged data set comprising over 200 million words generated over the course of 2012 and 2013 on...

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Main Authors: Ross Joseph Gore, Saikou Diallo, Jose Padilla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4557976?pdf=render