Follower Gender Classifier

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Know the gender of your followers!

A quick hack to support my short text classification thesis. This code serves as a quick demo and is NOT maintained!

Demo (temporary)

Introduction

Goal

The goal of this code demo is to predict gender of social media users based on comments section on Instagram profile by using AdaBoost, XGBoost, Support Vector Machine, and Naive Bayes Classifier combined with a grid search and K- Fold validation.

How many are males vs females?

We collect comments against followers' Instagram picture media posts and format them as bag-of-words along with other pre-processing.

Data Labelling