Abstract
A big issue that isn’t stressed enough for adolescents and emerging
adults is depression. Depression can affect you in various ways, whether
it be physically, mentally, or socially. Professional and academic
performance, personal relationships, and other factors that are
important to long-term success are negatively impacted. In trying to
help those that need help, we come across a major issue; identifying
depression. Social media has become increasingly popular over the years,
with many younger generations spending vast amounts of time on it.
Detecting depression from a platform that adolescents and emerging
adults frequently visit would contribute significantly to helping those
suffering from it. In this study, the datasets of tweets were utilized
to create multiple machine-learning models that would accurately detect
signs of depression. Out of 4 different machine learning models, this
research used the Random Forest Classifier model to achieve an accuracy
of 96.52%.