Tarek Elsaka, Imad Afyouni, I. A. Hashem, Z. Aghbari
{"title":"Correlation Analysis of Spatio-temporal Arabic COVID-19 Tweets","authors":"Tarek Elsaka, Imad Afyouni, I. A. Hashem, Z. Aghbari","doi":"10.1145/3486633.3491092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3486633.3491092","url":null,"abstract":"Since the recent COVID-19 outbreak, several researchers have begun to focus on various difficulties to data mining of social data to study people's reactions to the outbreak. Recent approaches have mostly concentrated on the analysis of social data in the English language. In this study, we present an in-depth social data mining approach to extract Spatio-temporal and semantic insights about the COVID-19 pandemic from the Arabic social data. We developed sentiment-based categorization methods to extract major topics at various location granularities (regions/cities). Besides, we used topic abstraction levels (subtopics and main topics). A correlation-based analysis of Arabic tweets and official health provider data will also be presented. Furthermore, we used occurrence-based and statistical correlation methodologies to create many topic-based analysis mechanisms. Our findings demonstrate a positive association between top subjects (for example, lockdown and vaccine) and the increasing number of COVID-19 new cases, but unfavorable attitudes among Arab Twitter users were generally heightened during this pandemic, on issues such as lockdown, closure, and law enforcement.","PeriodicalId":337679,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Computing for Epidemiology (SpatialEpi 2021)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130283292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A clustering environment for real-time tracking and analysis of Covid-19 case clusters","authors":"Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar, Andrew Curtis, J. Mills","doi":"10.1145/3486633.3491091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3486633.3491091","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial surveillance systems can be an effective and efficient way to provide early spatio-temporal warning signals of infectious diseases outbreaks. The development of spatial surveillance systems that can handle near-real time hospital spatial data have proven critical for directing intervention strategies and for risk mitigation during the ongoing monitoring and response to COVID-19. GeoMEDD, a geographic monitoring tool, was developed for such near-real time assessment of emergent localized disease. As the response to COVID-19 changed, moving through phases such as increased scientific understanding, testing variability, vaccine availability and uptake, and new variants, so GeoMEDD has also evolved. Here we present two advances for GeoMEDD; a fully automated cluster environment with a spatial database at its heart and a cluster tracking module to classify clusters based on the transition state of the cluster lifecycle. Our detailed use case analysis shows that these advances have improved local and global cluster analysis, contextual information dissemination, monitoring emergence based on underlying spatial structure and cluster evolution analysis. We believe that the addition of the fully automated cluster environment to GeoMEDD would be particularly beneficial for health institutions as well as governmental health organizations for disease outbreak detection due to the efficiency in data ingestion and analysis, while the addition of the cluster tracking module will advance research into the mechanics behind disease diffusion in space and time.","PeriodicalId":337679,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Computing for Epidemiology (SpatialEpi 2021)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132440040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility Response to COVID-19-related Restrictions in New York City","authors":"Emily Chen, Grant McKenzie","doi":"10.1145/3486633.3491094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3486633.3491094","url":null,"abstract":"The first case of the 2019 novel coronavirus was detected in the United States in January 2020, and since then, efforts to contain the virus, such as stay-at-home policies, have greatly restricted human mobility. While stay-at-home policies and concern over the virus contributed to an increase in time spent at home, little is known as to how a change in home dwell time varied by population. The work presented in this paper seeks to understand the relationships between levels of mobility and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of communities within New York City from February to April 2020. By analyzing the factors that contributed to changes in home dwell time, this work aims to support policymakers and inform future strategies for infection mitigation. Findings from this research reinforce the need for physical distancing policies that acknowledge the existence of socioeconomic and demographic diversity between not only geographic regions in the U.S. but also within a single city.","PeriodicalId":337679,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Computing for Epidemiology (SpatialEpi 2021)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114033277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}