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About NUI Galway
About NUI Galway
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Guiding Breakthrough Research at NUI Galway
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
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Engineering & Informatics
Ph.D. Student Joana Barros
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Biography
Research Interests
Peer Reviewed Journals
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(2019) | 'The Validity of Google Trends Search Volumes for Behavioral Forecasting of National Suicide Rates in Ireland'
Joana Barros, Ruth Melia, Kady Francis, John Bogue, Mary OSullivan, Karen Young, Rebecca A. Bernert, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Jim Duggan (2019) 'The Validity of Google Trends Search Volumes for Behavioral Forecasting of National Suicide Rates in Ireland'. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 16 (17) [DOI] [Details] |
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(2018) | 'Disease mentions in airport and hospital geolocations expose dominance of news events for disease concerns'
Joana Barros, Jim Duggan, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (2018) 'Disease mentions in airport and hospital geolocations expose dominance of news events for disease concerns'. Journal Of Biomedical Semantics, [Details] |
Conference Publications
Year | Publication | |
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(2019) | Digital Public Health
Joana Barros, Paul Buitelaar, Jim Duggan, and Dietrich Rebholz-Schumann (2019) Unsupervised Classification for Health Content on Twitter Digital Public Health [Details] |
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(2017) | International Conference on Digital Health
Joana Barros (2017) Text Mining from Social Media for Public Health Applications International Conference on Digital Health London, United Kingdom, , pp.223-224 [Details] |
Education
Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
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2015 | University of Lisbon | Master in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | |
2013 | University of Porto | Bachelor in Biology | Biology |
Modules Taught
Term/Year | Module Title | Module Code | Subject / Desc | |
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2018/2019 | Programming for Data Analytics | CT5102 | Lab Assistant | |
2017/2018 | Programming for Data Analytics | CT5102 | Lab Assistant |