Neglected disease in social network? A blueprint of Dengue in twitter as a contribution of information science for public health

This article aims to use tool of information science to illustrate the existence of Big data in the new century. Therefore, a study will be applied using the neglected diseases which threaten more than one billion people in the world. Social networks grow every day because of the phenomenon from Web 2.0 collaborative. Thus, aligning the urgent need to improve the health care of people with a better quality of life and one of the tools information technology obtained from Twitter, it is possible to extract reliable data to assess possible disease outbreaks. Approach is through a specific tool for data extraction and analysis of social network Twitter known as data mining by NodeXL, beyond consulting databases indexed such as PubMed, Web of Science, Medline and Scielo.