Sunmoo Yoon, Carmela Alcantara, Nicole Davis, Peter Broadwell, Haeyoung Lee, Amanda Bristol, Dante Tipiani, Joo Young Nho, Mary Mittelman
We applied social network analysis (SNA) on Tweets to compare Hispanic and Black dementia caregiving networks. We randomly extracted Tweets mentioning dementia caregiving and related terms from corpora collected daily via the Twitter API from September 1 to December 31, 2019 (initial corpus: n = 2,742,539 Tweets, random sample n = 549,380 English Tweets, n= 185,684 Spanish Tweets). After removing bot-generated Tweets, we first applied a lexicon-based demographic inference algorithm to automatically identify Tweets likely authored by Black and Hispanic individuals using Python (n = 114,511 English, n = 1,185 Spanish)...
January 14, 2022: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics