Patient Sentiment for Pharmaceutical Drugs from Twitter

Sadrach Pierre, Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
6 min readNov 25, 2019

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A common problem that pharmaceutical companies face is predicting if a patient will switch pharmaceutical drugs based on their patient journey. Information indicative of patients seeking to switch prescription drugs may be present in social media posts. Analyzing patient sentiment as it is expressed in tweets about prescription drugs may be a step in the right direction for solving this problem.

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Writer for Built In & Towards Data Science. Cornell University Ph. D. in Chemical Physics.