Depression Detection in Tweets using Logistic Regression Model

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Depression Detection in Tweets using
Logistic Regression Model
Rahul Kumar Sharma1, Vijayakumar A2
1Final Year MCA Student, Dept of MCA, School of CS & IT, Jain Deemed-to-be University, Bengaluru
2Professor, Dept of MCA, School of CS & IT, Jain Deemed-to-be University, Bengaluru
Email: rahulsharma.rks31@gmail.com1, vijay.pattukkottai@gmail.com2
ABSTRACT
In the growing world of modernization, mental health issues like depression,
anxiety and stress are very normal among people and social media like
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have boosted the growth of such mental
health. Everything has its legitimacyandnegativemark.Duringthis pandemic,
people are more likely to suffer from mental health issues, they are available
24*7 and are cut off from the real world. Past examinations have shown that
individuals who invest more energy via online media are bound to be
depressed. In this project, we find out people who are depressed based on
their tweets, followers, following and many other factors. For this, I have
trained and tested our text classifier, which will distinguish between the user
who is depressed or not depressed.
KEYWORDS: Depression, Flask, MentalHealth, NaturalLanguageToolkit(NLTK),
Twitter, Wordcloud
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Sharma | Vijayakumar A "Depression
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I. INTRODUCTION
Mental health like depression is most common in people
these days. Ten in every hundred people suffer from mental
health illness. This issue influences the individual
perspective, mind-set, feeling and conduct with adjoining
individuals. Most of the time people don't talk about their
mental health which sometimes leads to severe health
issues. Depression is one of the primary reasons that cause
disability worldwide. In the pre-mature age of depression,
70% of people don't consult with a doctor or with anyone
which can cause serious damage in future. There is a
movement going on to leverage socialmedia data forfinding,
estimating, and tracking the changes in the occurrence of
disease. The presence of online media gives us the freedom
to improve the information accessible to psychiatrist and
researchers enablingthemtobe betterinformed.Depression
is viewed as the superb justification individuals who will in
general have self-destructive contemplations. Around 80%
who attempt or die by suicide are suffering fromdepression.
But because of denial or ignorance, it is undetected and
people suffer. It can be prevented if it is diagnosed in its
early stage. This project will help us to find whether the
person is depressed or not depressed based on their tweets.
It can be used to find signs of other issues related to mental
health. In this study, we used tweets from different users,
which are labelled as 0 and 1. If the result is 0, it means the
user is not depressed and if the result is 1, it means the user
is depressed.
II. Literature Survey
In the past few years, researchers have worked to find ways
to detect depression in tweets of user based on his/her
tweets. The number of systems that were proposed to find
depression are large in number. We can use sentiment
analysis on text, web scrapping of tweets. Thousands ofdata
collected using mining algorithm that can bring some
meaningful insight into data.
Jamil Z (2017). proposed monitoring of tweets for
depression detection to detect at-risk users. University of
Ottawa [1]. SVM, Naive Bayes (NB), and Decision Tree (DT
are a portion of the generally utilized calculations in natural
language processing tasks. SVM-linear classifier gives us the
best result. As we all know no one algorithm can perform all
task. Scientists attempt to alter the calculation as indicated
by their, necessities of the task.
a. Decision Tree
Decision Tree classifies the instance based on the feature
values. Han J., Pei J., & Kamber M. (Elsevier,2011) gave the
concept and technique of Data mining [2]. Every node in the
decision tree addresses an element and every division
addresses a value that the node can undertake. A decision
tree involves partitioning the data into subdivisions that
contain occurrences with similar values, utilizing a
significant perspective in a decision tree, called split choice,
which means to discover a quality and its connected parting
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capacity for each test node in a decision tree. Podgorelec, V.,
& Zorman, M. (2014) gave insight about Decision tree
learning in Encyclopaedia of Complexity and Systems
Science 1-28 [3]. Splits are evaluated by calculating entropy.
Fig:2.1 Decision Tree
b. Random Forest
The Random forest classifier makes different choice trees
from an arbitrarily chosen subset of the preparationdataset.
Rodriguez-Galiano, V. F., Ghimire, B., Rogan, J., Chica-Olmo,
M., Rigol Sanchez, J. P. (2012) gave an assessment for the
effectiveness of a random forest classifier for landcover
classification. ISPRS Journal ofPhotogrammetryandRemote
Sensing 67: 93-104 [4]. At that point, it adds up to the votes
from various choice trees to choose for the last class of test
objects. Paul, A., Mukherjee, D. P., Das, P., Gangopadhyay, A.,
Chintha, A.R., Kundu, S. (2018) proposed an improved
random forest for classification IEEE Transactions on Image
Processing 27 (8): 4012-4024 [5]. A random forest
classification was proposed in with a diminished number of
trees.
Fig:2.2 Random Forest
c. Support Vector Machine
Saitta L., (2000) proposed “Support Vector Networks.”
Kluwer Acad. Publ. Bost.: 273–297 [6]. A Support Vector
Machine is a machine learning algorithm thatworksforboth
regression and grouping task, in any case, is mainly used in
arrangement. Hamed, T., Dara, R., Kremer, S. C. (2014) gave
an accurate, fast embedded feature selection for SVMs in
2014 13th International Conference on Machine Learning
and Applications, IEEE :135-140 [7]. This classifier has been
used of late in numerous applications because of its
outstanding characterizing capacity and show quality,
isolating the information directly into two separate classes,
with the most extreme distance between the two classes.
Fig:2.3 Support Vector Machine
d. K-Nearest Neighbour
K-Nearest Neighbour (K-NN) is potentially the clearest
computations embraced in machine learning for
classification and regression issues. In light of the nearest
gauges, KNN takes data and arranges ongoing data focuses.
The data is then assigned to the class with the premier
nearest neighbour. Taneja, S., Gupta, C., Goyal, K., Gureja, D.
(2014) proposed an enhanced k nearest neighbour
algorithm using information gain and clustering in Fourth
International Conference on Advanced Computing &
Communication Technologies IEEE:325-329. [8] KNN is
regularly used to characterise future data because of its
simplicity of execution and sufficiency.
Fig:2.4 K-Nearest Neighbour
III. Existing System
In the developing universe of the web, individualsliketolive
in a virtual world. They share every thought-onplatformlike
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. They will in general contrast
themselves as well as other people. Past examinations have
shown that individuals who invest more time in online
media are bound to be depressed. If depression is detected
in an early stage, it can be cured, in later stages, it becomes
more difficult to cure.
The project is concerned about that whether the person is
depressed or not based on their tweet.

IV. Proposed System
The goal of this project is to build a model which can help us
to detect whether the person is suffering from depression or
not based on their tweet. People can compose a tweet in the
content box and it will be breaking down by the model that
we have made and it will give us the outcome. I will be using
the python web framework Flask to integrate it with the
model and make it more intractable to the common user.
The proposed system can help us to make people aware of
their mental health andthey cantakenecessary measure and
help themselves. We take the dataset and clean it with the
justifiable goal. The dataset contains tweets and label (0and
1). If the tweet is depressing then the result will be 1 and if
the tweet is not depressing the result will be 0.Iwill beusing
the Logistic Regression Model and check the
accuracy. Later the model will be saved using a pickle
library.
a. Logistic Regression Model
In statistics, the logical model is utilized to demonstrate the
likelihood of a specific class or occasion existing like
win/lose, alive/dead or healthy/unhealthy. Logistic
Regression is a characterization algorithm. It is utilized to
foresee a binary outcome based on a set of independent
variables. A binary result is one where there are just two
potential situations either the occasion occurs (1) or it
doesn't occur (0). Independent factors are those factors or
factors which may impact the result (or ward variable).
Fig:4.1 Logistic Regression
b. Proposed System Architecture
Fig:4.2 Proposed System Architecture Twitter Sentiment
Analysis
As we can see in the above diagram, the user logs in through
their twitter account, and writes tweet. Text pre-processing
is applied to the tweet. Corpus is created, tweet is tokenized
and in last normalization is applied, where all character is
converted to lower case, links, emoji, punctuations are
removed. Hornik, K., & Grün, B. Topicmodels: used an R
package for fitting topic models. J. of Stat. Softw. 40 (13), 1-
30 (2011) [9]. Stemming is applied and a document term
network (DTM) is made for each record. The matrix shows
the reoccurrence of words in each tweet, where each line
demonstrates an archive of tweets and every segment
demonstrates all words utilized in all records. TF-IDF is used
to measure the words' weight. Features are appliedontothe
DTM are then converged with account measures removed
from the social network and user activities. Result of the
merge are then treated as free factors in classification
algorithms to anticipate the reliant variable of a result of
interest. Ultimately, we decide upon the Logistic Regression
algorithm.
V. Result and Discussions
Fig:5.1 Result of the Logistic Regression Model
By taking a look at the above picture, we can see that the
model has performed well. The exactness of our model is
96%. Now we can use this model to integrate it into our
template so that it can be used by the users.
a. Model Comparison
Table 1: Accuracy and Model comparison table
Model Accuracy Precision F1-measure
Decision Tree 72.5 0.473684 0.5625
Support Vector
Machine
72.5 0.681818 0.652174
Logistic
Regression
98 0.98 0.98
In order to get better result, we are going to compare our
model with other models which have different accuracy. In
the above picture we can see that the Logistic Regression
have the highest accuracy.
VI. Conclusion and Future Enhancements
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence assume a
significant part in Healthcare, Banking, Stocks, Cyber
Security, Weather Forecast, etc. We as a client gather
information, clean it, train it, test it and make a forecast. The
exactness of the outcome relies upon the nature of the
information and the type of algorithm used. Many pre-
processing steps are performed, including data preparation
and aligning, data labelling, and feature extraction and
selection. The Logistic Regression Model has accomplished
its ideal exactness and this model can be utilized to foresee
that if the client is depressed or not. This project can be
considered a step forward to build a social media platform
for analyzing user activity and to predict the state of mental
health of the user.
Utilizing this stage, the client doesn't need to make an
account. They can compose any content or tweet, and the
model will investigate if the individual is depressed or not.
With the help of this result, the user can take precautions
and can consult with the psychiatrist. It can act as a
standalone application for depression detection. In future,
we can use voice and facial expression to detect depression.

Reference-
[1] Jamil, Z. Monitoring tweets for depression to
detect at-risk users. Universitéd'Ottawa/University
of Ottawa, 2017.
[2] Han J., Pei J., & Kamber, M. Data mining: concepts
and techniques (Elsevier,2011)
[3] Podgorelec, V., & Zorman, M. Decision tree learning
in Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science
1-28 (2014)
[4] Rodriguez-Galiano, V. F., Ghimire, B., Rogan, J.,
Chica-Olmo, M., Rigol Sanchez, J. P. (2012) “An
assessment of the effectiveness of a random forest
classifier for landcover classification.”ISPRSJournal
of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 67: 93-
104.
[5] Paul, A., Mukherjee, D. P., Das, P., Gangopadhyay, A.,
Chintha, A.R., Kundu, S. (2018)"Improved random
forest forclassification."IEEE Transactions onImage
Processing 27 (8): 4012-4024.
[6] Saitta, L., (2000) “Support Vector Networks.”
Kluwer Acad. Publ. Bost.: 273–297.
[7] Hamed, T., Dara, R., Kremer, S. C. (2014) "An
accurate, fast embedded feature selection for
SVMs." In2014 13th International Conference on
Machine Learning and ApplicationsIEEE :135-140.
[8] Taneja, S., Gupta, C., Goyal, K., Gureja, D. (2014) "An
enhanced k nearest neighbour algorithm using
information gain and clustering." Fourth
InternationalConferenceon AdvancedComputing&
Communication Technologies IEEE:325-329.
[9] Hornik, K., & Grün, B. Topicmodels: An R package
for fitting topic models. J. of Stat. Softw. 40 (13), 1-
30 (2011).

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