Vitary: Mental Health x Food

Inspiration

I was inspired to build this after talking to a friend who kept track of their meals and behavioral patterns to try to figure out what the trigger behind their migraines were. I also noticed friends, upon some symptoms, who would keep making mental note of certain behaviors they think might be related to symptoms. I wanted to introduce tech to this, and help people log their behaviors and symptoms, and see what symptoms are associated with what behaviors. This would help make those interested in using data science and ML applied to find correlations in their daily life more accessible, as the interface requires no prior data science knowledge.

What it does

You log what you eat and your mood afterwards in our diary. We take your food diary and suggest possible foods that are associated with worsened mental health. For example, you can keep track log possible triggers for migraines and associated migraine level, to get insight into behaviors that are highly correlated with having a migraine.

We do this via a google colab notebook, so anyone with a Google account can access, use it without the need for us hosting it, and examine the code.

How we built it

Google colab, python, sklearn.

What we learned

How to use google colab UI and markdown.

What's next for Vitary

Get domain experts to further review and add domain specific questions, integrate data of others in predicting mental health (currently every individual has a model trained on their own data), improve modeling and include validation testing, further examine potential biases, security and safety concerns.

Built With

• google-colab
• python