| Abstrakt: |
A recent report discusses the use of social media data in epidemiological cohort studies. The researchers from the Luxembourg Institute of Health introduced ALTRUIST, an open-source Python package that allows for the generation of virtual digital cohort studies using social media data. This package facilitates data collection, preprocessing, and analysis steps that mimic traditional cohort studies. The researchers demonstrate the potential of virtual digital cohort studies as a cost-effective tool for specific research questions, complementing traditional epidemiological methods. ALTRUIST is customizable and can be applied to data from various online communities of patients. [Extracted from the article] |
