Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set.

Emily Chen Kristina Lerman Emilio Ferrara

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2020)

It is our hope that our contribution will enable the study of online conversation dynamics in the context of a planetary-scale epidemic outbreak of unprecedented proportions and implications. This data set could also help track COVID-19-related misinformation and unverified rumors or enable the understanding of fear and panic-and undoubtedly more.

Keyphrases

social media
sars cov
health information
electronic health record
coronavirus disease
big data
healthcare
mental health