We are monitoring public Tweets to gather geolocation data of users to see how people are socially distancing after the March 16th guidelines announced nationally by the White House. On average, there is a 54.97% reduction in movement within the United States, sampled by Tweets from public Twitter users. By tracking geolocation data, we can find which state, city, or region within the US is following the guidelines and reducing travel the most and how that could locally link to reduction or surges of COVID-19.

HealthTweets.org is a research platform for sharing the latest developments in mining health trends from Twitter and other social media sites. HealthTweets.org allows public health practitioners and researchers direct access to the output of the group’s data mining algorithms.

Tobacco Watcher is an automated surveillance system for tobacco focused media analytics. Our computers search the web in dozens of languages for news articles, and identifies each article by tobacco control topic, location, date and language to make media monitoring easier and more effective. By operating continuously in real time, Tobacco Watcher can help you stay on top of a fast changing global landscape by freely delivering and analyzing the world’s tobacco-related media.