Data mining Instagram feeds can point to teenage drinking patterns

Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 10:40 in Health & Medicine

Instagram could offer a novel way of monitoring the drinking habits of teenagers. Using photos and text from Instagram, a team of researchers from the University of Rochester has shown that this data can not only expose patterns of underage drinking more cheaply and faster than conventional surveys, but also find new patterns, such as […]

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