Generating Contextual Variables From Web-Based Data for Health Research: Tutorial on Web Scraping, Text Mining, and Spatial Overlay Analysis.

Pablo Galvez-Hernandez Angelina Gonzalez-Viana Luis González-de Paz Ketan Shankardass Carles Muntaner

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2024)

The sequential use of WeTMS offers a robust method for generating data sets containing contextual-level variables from internet text data. This study can guide health and social researchers in efficiently generating ready-to-analyze data sets containing contextual variables.

Keyphrases

electronic health record
big data
healthcare
mental health
public health
health information
smoking cessation
data analysis
risk assessment
artificial intelligence
deep learning