Text Mining Support to Pandemic Planning

Text mining is a useful tool to identify sentiment. Not only it is widely used in stock market operations but it can also be applied to analyze Web content or other documents related to pandemic operations. A support vector machine is a data mining algorithm useful for certain types of data. This chapter demonstrates the use of a Web crawler to identify financial sentiment, a process that would also work for pandemic management. A support vector model is applied to a Chinese stock market index, demonstrating that technology also could be extended to pandemic planning and control.