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Generating Contextual Variables From Web-Based Data for Health Research: Tutorial on Web Scraping, Text Mining, and Spatial Overlay Analysis

Generating Contextual Variables From Web-Based Data for Health Research: Tutorial on Web Scraping, Text Mining, and Spatial Overlay Analysis

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Pablo Galvez-Hernandez1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Angelina Gonzalez-Viana3 Author Orcid Image ;   Luis Gonzalez-de Paz4, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Ketan Shankardass6, 7 Author Orcid Image ;   Carles Muntaner1, 8 Author Orcid Image
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