Application of twitter in health care sector for India

Abstract

One of the reasons of exponential growth of unstructured data is increasing popularity of various social media and blogging sites. This vast amount of data can be utilized to form insights and take necessary actions. While it has been extensively used in developed countries, there has been a lack of focused studies based on tweets in context of India. In this paper, 15K + Tweets have been collected using an efficient method and the same has been used to answer few relevant questions about Indian Healthcare. The study seems to be quite effective and a repository of such tweets can be built for a more holistic and structured analysis.