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Machine Learning For Effective Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis, Brennon Brimhall Mar 2020

Machine Learning For Effective Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis, Brennon Brimhall

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Parkinson’s Disease is a degenerative neurological condition that affects approximately 10 million people globally. Because there is currently no cure, there is a strong motivation for research into improved and automated diagnostic procedures. Using Random Forests, a computer can effectively learn to diagnose Parkinson’s disease in a patient with high accuracy (94%), precision (95%), and recall (91%) across the data of over 2800 patients. Using similar techniques, I further determine that the most predictive medical tests relate to tremors observed in patients.


Classifying Textual Fast Food Restaurant Reviews Quantitatively Using Text Mining And Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms, Lindsey Wright May 2018

Classifying Textual Fast Food Restaurant Reviews Quantitatively Using Text Mining And Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms, Lindsey Wright

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Companies continually seek to improve their business model through feedback and customer satisfaction surveys. Social media provides additional opportunities for this advanced exploration into the mind of the customer. By extracting customer feedback from social media platforms, companies may increase the sample size of their feedback and remove bias often found in questionnaires, resulting in better informed decision making. However, simply using personnel to analyze the thousands of relative social media content is financially expensive and time consuming. Thus, our study aims to establish a method to extract business intelligence from social media content by structuralizing opinionated textual data using …