VaccineWatch: a monitoring system of vaccine messages from social media data

Abstract

To exploit social media data in vaccine-related areas, we proposed VaccineWatch, a monitoring system with visualizations and analytics of significant vaccine information from Twitter and RSS feeds. The system was designed and implemented as a web application with following distinguished features. First, it comes with graphical user interfaces that visualize perspectives of vaccine-related information mined from social media data. Second, it provides a set of filters allowing users to focus on their diseases, vaccines, countries, and/or companies of interest. Third, it includes the helper tools for the management of social media data collection and backend processes such as Twitter and RSS crawlers. The prototype of VaccineWatch is available at www.vacciknowlogy .org/VaccineWatch.