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Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media (2024)
Journal Article
Dhiman, A., Yom-Tov, E., Pellis, L., Edelstein, M., Pebody, R., Hayward, A., House, T., Finnie, T., Guzman, D., Lampos, V., Virus Watch Consortium, & Cox, I. J. (2024). Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media. npj Digital Medicine, 7(1), Article 194. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01160-2

We propose a method to estimate the household secondary attack rate (hSAR) of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom based on activity on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Conventional methods of hSAR estimation are resource intensive,... Read More about Estimating the household secondary attack rate and serial interval of COVID-19 using social media.

An Approximate Model for Event Detection from Twitter Data (2020)
Journal Article
Dhiman, A., & Toshniwal, D. (2020). An Approximate Model for Event Detection from Twitter Data. IEEE Access, 8, 122168-122184. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007004

The abundance and real-time availability of Twitter data have proved beneficial in detecting events in various domains such as emergency situations, crime detection, public health, place recommendations, etc. Nevertheless, two critical challenges occ... Read More about An Approximate Model for Event Detection from Twitter Data.