Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania

Text-mining Social Media to Study Mental and Physical

Well-being

Lyle Ungar University of Pennsylvania

What psychological factors drive well-being? And how can social media measure them?

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Method

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Predict and understand well-being

u  Individual personality and well-being l  70,000 Facebook users posts l  age, sex, personality questionnaire results

u Community well-being l  Billions of tweets, mapped to county l  County-level happiness and disease rates

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Males

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Females

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Twitter predicts SWL

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Twitter Predicts CVD

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Predictors of CVD

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Twitter predicts CVD

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Thank you!!! Questions?

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