Vaccine Hesitant Persona Mapper
We were asked by Columbia University to help build a map of vaccine hesitancy to assist public health officials in increasing vaccination rates. We built a corpus of millions of social media messages from platforms like Twitter, Reddit and Youtube comments. We are now analyzing this data by manually annotating thousands of training examples using a multi-parent taxonomy and iteratively (active learning driven) training a multi-label machine learning and NLP powered parser. If we are successful, we hope to save lives by convincing the vaccine hesitant to protect themselves and their communities. [Read more]