Title
Social Network Analysis to Surveillance the Impact of Covid-19 in the African continent
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Pandemics originated by Covid-19 has caused many reactions in the world. Each country has reacted with different health policies. In this work, we analyze the publications of African citizens on Social networks (Twitter) to understand the pandemic scenario during the study period using a text mining approach. The study also adopted a statistical model to quantify the impact of daily COVID-19 cases on the frequency of tweets. Findings show that African tweets are related to awareness creation and policies to control the spread of COVID-19.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85127026827
Resource of which it is part
International Conference on Electrical, Computer, and Energy Technologies, ICECET 2021
ISBN of the container
9781665442312
Conference
2021 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, and Energy Technologies, ICECET 2021 Cape Town 9 December 2021 through 10 December 2021
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus