Machine Learning Classifiers for Twitter Surveillance of Vaping: Comparative Machine Learning Study

• Main Authors: Visweswaran, Shyam (Author), Colditz, Jason B (Author), O'Halloran, Patrick (Author), Han, Na-Rae (Author), Taneja, Sanya B (Author), Welling, Joel (Author), Chu, Kar-Hai (Author), Sidani, Jaime E (Author), Primack, Brian A (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundTwitter presents a valuable and relevant social media platform to study the prevalence of information and sentiment on vaping that may be useful for public health surveillance. Machine learning classifiers that identify vaping-relevant tweets and characterize sentiments in them can underpi...