You Are What You Tweet

Detecting Depression in Social Media via Twitter Usage

Anne Bonner
Towards Data Science
12 min readAug 10, 2019

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By analyzing linguistic markers in social media posts, it’s possible to create a deep learning model that can give an individual insight into his or her mental health far earlier than traditional approaches.

More than 300 million people suffer from depression and only a fraction of them receive adequate…

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