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Contributors
Cody Haag, BA. VP of R&D, Clean Sweep Group, Inc. (CSGI)
Daniel Field, RN, CIC. Communications Chair, California APIC
Angela Vassallo, MPH, MS, CIC, FAPIC. Vice-Chair, APIC Communications
Methods
Step 1) Twitter tweets retrieved from Twitter API using page-related search terms.
Step 2) Twitter tweets sorted into topics. More information on statistical methods and data processing for topic analysis found at Blei et al. & Haag et al.
Step 3) Twitter hashtags tallied per topic.
Step 4) ‘Topical Literature’ retrieved from Crossref repository using topic keywords.
Step 5) HTML document generated with R Markdown and flexdashboard.
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References
Michael W. Kearney (2017). rtweet: Collecting Twitter Data. R package version 0.4.8. https://cran.r-project.org/package=rtweet
Grün B and Hornik K (2011). “topicmodels: An R Package for Fitting Topic Models.” Journal of Statistical Software, 40(13), pp. 1-30. http://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v040.i13.
Ingo Feinerer and Kurt Hornik (2015). tm: Text Mining Package. R package version 0.6-2. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tm
Max Gordon. htmlTable: Advanced Tables for Markdown/HTML. R package version 1.9. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=htmlTable
Yihui Xie (2015). DT: A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library ‘DataTables’. R package version 0.1. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DT
Scott Chamberlain, Carl Boettiger, Ted Hart and Karthik Ram (2016). rcrossref: Client for Various ‘CrossRef’ APIs. R package version 0.6.0. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rcrossref
JJ Allaire, Joe Cheng, Yihui Xie, Jonathan McPherson, Winston Chang, Jeff Allen, Hadley Wickham, Aron Atkins and Rob Hyndman (2016). rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for R. R package version 0.9.5. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rmarkdown
JJ Allaire (2017). flexdashboard: R Markdown Format for Flexible Dashboards. R package version 0.5 https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=flexdashboard
R Core Team (2017). R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing. https://www.R-project.org/