Aadit Barua, Westlake High School, Austin TX Depression is a serious mental health issue that affects 264 million people in the world according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Statistics published by the WHO indicate that 800,000 people die by suicide each year with severe depression being a major contributor…

By Aadit Barua and Josh Barua, Westlake High School, Austin, TX. The main idea We develop and test a simple method for extracting sentiments regarding individual features of a product or service from user reviews. The motivation is that users may mention multiple features in their reviews, and may hold…

By Aadit Barua and Josh Barua, Westlake High School, Austin, TX. Engagement is a scarce commodity that every brand is vying for in online platforms like Instagram. How can we use machine learning to help a brand increase its engagement levels on Instagram? What type of pictures attracts attention and…

By Aadit Barua & Josh Barua, Westlake High School, Austin, TX. Is QAnon a grassroots phenomenon, or is it largely driven by a few influencers? To be considered an influencer, a user must get a lot of attention from others in a network, which can be measured in Twitterverse as…

Aadit Barua, Westlake High School, Austin, TX. It is easy, but is it reliable? Sentiment analysis is an important part of text mining, and is essential in automated processing of social mentions, customer interactions, product reviews and myriad other applications. Broadly speaking, sentiment analysis comes in two flavors — supervised and unsupervised — with supervised being touted…

Aadit Barua, Westlake High School, Austin, TX. A valuable resource, but too much data overload? Online communities are platforms for in-depth discussions and interactions between people with shared interests. From car and hi-fi enthusiasts to patients suffering from a chronic disease, members in these online communities have a variety of objectives, including obtaining advice from experts, understanding the…