Deep Learning to Predict Engagement in Online Platforms

Training LSTMs to understand the usage of online platforms.

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Illustration of deep learning for a time-series use cases. Created by the author using DALL-E/GPT4.

Synopsis

As part of my MSc dissertation at Edinburgh University, I used deep learning tech to predict user participation in Zooniverse. Zooniverse is an online citizen science platform that allows non-scientists to contribute to specific…