Flu Spread Indicator
Developed an application that takes a database with tweets, filters the ones containing flu information, and uses their geolocation to count and map flu occurrences across the US. Flu tweets are recognized by applying appropriate Regex to filter "#flu" and "flu" words. For chosen tweets, their geolocation is retrived
and using the cartesian (planar) distance their approximate state is assigned. Then, the program counts flu tweets from each region, and returns a list of states with their appropriate count of flu occurances.
The program can be used to track the spread of disease. Since it's a graduate project, pictures of code and the link to repository won't be posted (I can share it privately if you are interested!)