How the world's collective attention is being paid to a pandemic: COVID-19 related n-gram time series for 24 languages on Twitter.

ABSTRACT: In confronting the global spread of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic we must have coordinated medical, operational, and political responses. In all efforts, data is crucial. Fundamentally, and in the possible absence of a vaccine for 12 to 18 months, we need universal, well-documented testing for both the presence of the disease as well as confirmed recovery through serological tests for antibodies, and we need to track major socioeconomic indices. But we also need auxiliary data of all kinds, including data related to how populations are talking about the unfolding pandemic through news and stories. To in part help on the social media side, we curate a set of 2000 day-scale time series of 1- and 2-grams across 24 languages on Twitter that are most 'important' for April 2020 with

SUBMITTER: Alshaabi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7787459 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature