Data Mining and Machine Learning project developed by Pietro Tempesti and Benedetta Tessa

Worsening mental health has become an increasingly concerning issue during the pandemic, but recent studies have shown that peer-to-peer support has been nothing but beneficial to young students.

What we aim to do is connect people so that they build a relationship based on empathy which may lead to a mutual mental health improvement. We want to cluster individuals based on the answer of a quick survey so that their similar experiences may help build trust and feeling more comfortable with each other.

The application is composed by one module, which implements the user interface, the logical behaviours, the database collections and the ML tasks. In addition, there's a MySQL dump with a demonstration database.

First of all, you need to import the database on MySQL using the abuddy_dump_final.sql script.

Load the repository into an IDE such as IntelliJ and run the HelloApplication class.

Now you can sign up and compile the form, waiting for a clustering operation. To force the clustering operation you can login as an administrator (user: admin, password: admin) and press the button "Force clustering". The uploaded dump contains only users already clustered as a demonstration purpose, so if you want to explore the application you can login with the test account (user: test, password: test)