
Mind & BrainMarch 1, 2016
Using Social Media to Assess Health from Afar
By analyzing the language of tweets and Facebook posts, scientists can increasingly make communitywide health forecasts and even individual diagnoses
Johannes C. Eichstaedt is a data scientist pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he co-founded the World Well-Being Project in 2011.

Using Social Media to Assess Health from Afar
By analyzing the language of tweets and Facebook posts, scientists can increasingly make communitywide health forecasts and even individual diagnoses