Episode 16 - Laura Espinosa - Tweet-Based Epidemiology

On today's episode, we speak with Laura Espinosa, Epidemic Intelligence Expert at ECDC, about Epitweetr. This tool allows users to automatically monitor trends of tweets with the aim of detecting public health threats early. 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 modifying the topics and keywords.  

You can find more information about Epitweetr here, or see the Epitweetr page on Github.

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