Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
London, United Kingdom United Kingdom
Occupation
PhD Candidate and Data Visualisation Consultant
Industry
Electronics / Computer Hardware
Website
www.digitalcoeliac.com
About
My doctoral research explores how individuals’ online interactions inform their health-navigation of the city. The working title of my study is: Twitter: Re-Writing The City Landscape With Health Knowledge. With the case study of Coeliac Disease, my research aims to understand and visualise the way patients share information on Twitter about where to find gluten free food in the daily self-management of their chronic illness.
I use data mining techniques to mine the Twitter API for health-related hashtags that include key terms that Coeliac patients use when discussing their gluten free diet or seeking advice via Twitter. These include the hashtags: #coeliac #celiac #glutenfree and ot...
Tags
twitter
social media
chronic illness
chronic disease management
social network analysis (sna)
instagram
chronic illness and long-term care
public health
self-management
big data
data visualization
data visualisation
multimorbidity
critical public health
chronic diseases
health sciences
gamification
gamification of healthcare
gamification design
social network analysis
gluten free
gephi
social networks
symptoms
coeliac disease
celiac disease
big social data
data mining
gluten
mapping
data science
gis
digital
coeliac
celiac
cities
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