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Noise Annoyance in the UAE: A Twitter Case Study via a Data-Mining Approach

Noise pollution is a growing global public health concern. Among other issues, it has been linked with sleep disturbance, hearing functionality, increased blood pressure and heart disease. Individuals are increasingly using social media to express complaints and concerns about problematic noise sour...

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Autores principales: Peplow, Andrew, Thomas, Justin, AlShehhi, Aamna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33672320
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042198
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Thomas, Justin
AlShehhi, Aamna
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description Noise pollution is a growing global public health concern. Among other issues, it has been linked with sleep disturbance, hearing functionality, increased blood pressure and heart disease. Individuals are increasingly using social media to express complaints and concerns about problematic noise sources. This behavior—using social media to post noise-related concerns—might help us better identify troublesome noise pollution hotspots, thereby enabling us to take corrective action. The present work is a concept case study exploring the use of social media data as a means of identifying and monitoring noise annoyance across the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We explored an extract of Twitter data for the UAE, comprising over eight million messages (tweets) sent during 2015. We employed a search algorithm to identify tweets concerned with noise annoyance and, where possible, we also extracted the exact location via Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates) associated with specific messages/complaints. The identified noise complaints were organized in a digital database and analyzed according to three criteria: first, the main types of the noise source (music, human factors, transport infrastructures); second, exterior or interior noise source and finally, date and time of the report, with the location of the Twitter user. This study supports the idea that lexicon-based analyses of large social media datasets may prove to be a useful adjunct or as a complement to existing noise pollution identification and surveillance strategies.
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spelling pubmed-79271252021-03-04 Noise Annoyance in the UAE: A Twitter Case Study via a Data-Mining Approach Peplow, Andrew Thomas, Justin AlShehhi, Aamna Int J Environ Res Public Health Communication Noise pollution is a growing global public health concern. Among other issues, it has been linked with sleep disturbance, hearing functionality, increased blood pressure and heart disease. Individuals are increasingly using social media to express complaints and concerns about problematic noise sources. This behavior—using social media to post noise-related concerns—might help us better identify troublesome noise pollution hotspots, thereby enabling us to take corrective action. The present work is a concept case study exploring the use of social media data as a means of identifying and monitoring noise annoyance across the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We explored an extract of Twitter data for the UAE, comprising over eight million messages (tweets) sent during 2015. We employed a search algorithm to identify tweets concerned with noise annoyance and, where possible, we also extracted the exact location via Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates) associated with specific messages/complaints. The identified noise complaints were organized in a digital database and analyzed according to three criteria: first, the main types of the noise source (music, human factors, transport infrastructures); second, exterior or interior noise source and finally, date and time of the report, with the location of the Twitter user. This study supports the idea that lexicon-based analyses of large social media datasets may prove to be a useful adjunct or as a complement to existing noise pollution identification and surveillance strategies. MDPI 2021-02-23 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7927125/ /pubmed/33672320 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042198 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Noise Annoyance in the UAE: A Twitter Case Study via a Data-Mining Approach
title Noise Annoyance in the UAE: A Twitter Case Study via a Data-Mining Approach
title_full Noise Annoyance in the UAE: A Twitter Case Study via a Data-Mining Approach
title_fullStr Noise Annoyance in the UAE: A Twitter Case Study via a Data-Mining Approach
title_full_unstemmed Noise Annoyance in the UAE: A Twitter Case Study via a Data-Mining Approach
title_short Noise Annoyance in the UAE: A Twitter Case Study via a Data-Mining Approach
title_sort noise annoyance in the uae: a twitter case study via a data-mining approach
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33672320
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042198
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