Social Media-Based Overweight Prediction Using Deep Learning

Research Question(s): How can we utilize deep learning natural language processing models on social media to predict and find patterns between online data and overweight users?

Obesity is one of the highest health concerns in the United States and is of upmost importance to public health officials to reign in the possible causes, correlations, and determining factors.  In this study, using self-disclosure theory, which describes people having the tendency to disclose otherwise personal information more freely online than they would in person, we attempt to predict if a given user is overweight or not.