Tweet Counts by Cancer Type and Week

Katja Reuter compiled this dataset of tweet counts captured each week, categorized by cancer type. The dataset is available via the paperswithcode platform under an Open Access (green) license. Specific details on the temporal coverage, total volume, and exact cancer types are not provided in the available metadata.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in public discussion volume for specific cancer types based on weekly tweet counts.
• Compare relative online attention between different cancer types based on the weekly count data.
• Identify potential correlations between real-world events and spikes in cancer-related social media activity based on the weekly time-series.

Strengths

• Data is structured by cancer type, enabling comparative analysis.
• Time-series structure by week allows for trend analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and total data volume are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Katja Reuter via paperswithcode

Collection Method

Likely collected via Twitter/X API or similar social media capture methods.