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New tool for the early detection of public health threats from Twitter data: epitweetr

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Friday, October 2, 2020

The R-based tool epitweetrallows users to automatically monitor trends of tweets by time, place and topic, with the aim of detecting public health threats early through signals, such as an unusual increase in the number of tweets.

Key Points: 
  • The R-based tool epitweetrallows users to automatically monitor trends of tweets by time, place and topic, with the aim of detecting public health threats early through signals, such as an unusual increase in the number of tweets.
  • It was designed to support public health experts with the early detection of threats from infectious diseases but can be extended to all hazards and other fields of study by modifying the topics and keywords.
  • The epitweetr package includes an interactive web application (based on the R package Shiny) with five pages:

    To make epitweetr as widely available as possible, R was chosen as the computing platform.

  • epitweetr can be downloaded free of charge from the ECDC website, the CRAN website (for CRAN users) or GitHub (for GitHub users).

Bell Media's Crave Becomes Bilingual Jan. 28

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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

MONTRAL, Jan. 21, 2020 /CNW/ -Bell Media announced today that Crave is evolving into a bilingual TV and streaming service next week, offering more than 6,000 hours of exclusive new French-language content.

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  • MONTRAL, Jan. 21, 2020 /CNW/ -Bell Media announced today that Crave is evolving into a bilingual TV and streaming service next week, offering more than 6,000 hours of exclusive new French-language content.
  • As part of the change, Bell Media's Super cran becomes available over-the-top for the first time as an add-on to Crave.
  • The updated bilingual Crave officially debuts on Tuesday, January 28 through participating television providers and streaming platforms.
  • With the new Crave + Super cran add-on, French-language programming grows to more than 6,000 hours with more than 20 new releases per month.

Cran-Ber-Rita Is Back

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

That's right: Cran-Ber-Rita has returned, just in time to liven up any and all upcoming fall and winter plans.

Key Points: 
  • That's right: Cran-Ber-Rita has returned, just in time to liven up any and all upcoming fall and winter plans.
  • Pumpkin spice and apple cider are great and everything, but those flavors can't party quite like Cran-Ber-Rita.
  • Indulge with a can of cran and witness your basic fall plans become anything but boring.
  • Apple picking, visits to the pumpkin patch, even turkey dinner can be paired with limited edition Cran-Ber-Rita for a cornucopia of flavor.