The project is my thesis for master of Big Dat Analytics at Arcada University; with title: Analysing Patterns In Depression-Related Web Searches Via Google Trends.
we scrape Google Trend time series data for six years from 2015 to 2021 for depression-related-terms in Finland geographical area. The terms are 36 top related words to “Masennus”, Finnish word for depression, and” Depression” introduced by Google Trend. To find different categories of the search-terms which bear similar trend in time, we applied supervised machine learning method, clustering.