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Analysis of article to determine research methods used
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Author : | Kung J.Y.; Ly K.; Shiri A. | |
Title | Text mining applications to support health library practice: A case study on marijuana legalization Twitter analytics |
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| Reference : | Kung J.Y.; Ly K.; Shiri A. Text mining applications to support health library practice: A case study on marijuana legalization Twitter analytics,Health Information and Libraries Journal |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85145570944&doi=10.1111%2fhir.12473&partnerID=40&md5=e4036b716363fd0b4932d4f1d040c715 |
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| Abstract | Background: Twitter is rich in data for text and data analytics research, with the ability to capture trends. Objectives: This study examines Canadian tweets on marijuana legalization and terminology used. Presented as a case study, Twitter analytics will demonstrate the varied applications of how this kind of research method may be used to inform library practice. Methods: Twitter API was used to extract a subset of tweets using seven relevant hashtags. Using open-source programming tools, the sampled tweets were analysed between September to November 2018, identifying themes, frequently used terms, sentiment, and co-occurring hashtags. Results: More than 1,176,000 tweets were collected. The most popular hashtag co-occurrence, two hashtags appearing together, was #cannabis and #CdnPoli. There was a high variance in the sentiment analysis of all collected tweets but most scores had neutral sentiment. Discussion: The case study presents text-mining applications relevant to help make informed decisions in library practice through service analysis, quality analysis, and collection analysis. Conclusions: Findings from sentiment analysis may determine usage patterns from users. There are several ways in which libraries may use text mining to make evidence-informed decisions such as examining all possible terminologies used by the public to help inform comprehensive evidence synthesis projects and build taxonomies for digital libraries and repositories. © 2023 Health Libraries Group. |
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