Instagram profiles reveal user depression in new machine learning study

A team of researchers with the University of Vermont and Harvard have published a new study detailing Instagram profiles and the hidden clues they may hold about the photographer's mental state. Using machine learning, the team was able to identify signs of depression based off an Instagram profile's photos, metadata, and things like facial recognition. The study looked at 43,950 photographs from 166 individual Instagram users, and had a 70-percent accuracy rate when identifying users with clin...