Twitter and artificial intelligence (AI) may allow public health officials to track people's physical activities, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. Using //Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data from various social media sites, researchers tracked people's physical activities, from bowling to CrossFit, in a bid to inform future efforts to tackle health disparities.
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The research team used machine learning to find and comb through exercise-related tweets from across the US, unpacking regional and gender differences in exercise types and intensity levels. Read More..
By analyzing the language of the tweets, this method was also able to show how different populations feel about different kinds of exercise.
"In most cases, lower-income communities tend to lack access to resources that encourage a healthy lifestyle," said study author Elaine Nsoesie, Assistant Professor at the Boston University in the US.
"By understanding differences in how people are exercising across different communities, we can design interventions that target the specific needs of those communities," Nsoesie said.
For the study, the researchers used a set of AI models to find and analyze 1,382,284 relevant tweets by 481,146 Twitter users in 2,900 US counties.
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According to the findings, the top exercise terms were "walk", "dance", "golf", "workout", "run", "pool", "hike", "yoga", "swim" and "bowl". Walking was the most popular activity overall, but other activities varied by gender and region.
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