Public health research led by UVM’s Chris Danforth in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, attracted extensive international media attention. Danforth is the senior author on a study in EPJ Data Science that shows that the color and type of photos people post on Instagram can be a powerful early warning system for depression. This work is remarkable in itself and points toward a larger potential — being explored by UVM scientists in the Complex Systems Center and Computational Story Lab — for probing social media and other online platforms as a source of insights for many public health problems. Stories were published in The New York Times, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, Quartz, and hundreds of other outlets around the world.
Source: UVM News