The Lexicocalorimeter: Gauging public health through caloric input and output on social media

The Lexicocalorimeter: Gauging public health through caloric input and output on social media

We propose and develop a Lexicocalorimeter: an online, interactive instrument for measuring the “caloric content” of social media and other large-scale texts. We do so by constructing extensive yet improvable tables of food and activity related phrases, and respectively assigning them with sourced e...

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Main Authors: Alajajian, Sharon E., Williams, Jake Ryland, Reagan, Andrew J., Alajajian, Stephen C., Mitchell, Lewis, Lahne, Jacob, Danforth, Christopher M., Dodds, Peter Sheridan, Frank, Morgan Ryan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110007
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9487-9359

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110007
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9487-9359

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