Geosocial Media’s Early Warning Capabilities Across US County-Level Political Clusters: Observational Study

Dorian Arifi   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Bernd Resch   ^{1, 2, 3} , Prof Dr ;   Mauricio Santillana   ^{4, 5} , Prof Dr ;   Weihe Wendy Guan   ³ , PhD ;   Steffen Knoblauch   ^{6, 7, 8} , MSc ;   Sven Lautenbach   ^{6, 8} , Prof Dr ;   Thomas Jaenisch   ^{9, 10} , Prof Dr ;   Ivonne Morales   ^{10, 11} , PhD ;   Clemens Havas   ¹² , Prof Dr

¹ Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

² Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Linz, Austria

³ Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

⁴ Machine Intelligence Group for the Betterment of Health and the Environment, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ GIScience Research Group, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

⁷ Interdisciplinary Centre of Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

⁸ HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) GbmH, Heidelberg, Germany

⁹ Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, United States

¹⁰ Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

¹¹ Department of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

¹² Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Puch/Salzburg, Austria