Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video shows you how to create a Random Forest model to determine the factors that have the strongest impact on youth mental health scores. Written instructions and example code are available on the Science Buddies website: sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/ArtificialIntelligence_p029/artificial-intelligence/social_media?ytid=hlCc1Yoiv5c&ytsrc=description

0:00 Introduction
0:22 Setting Up the Google Colab Environment
1:12 Importing Libraries
1:30 Loading the Data into a Pandas DataFrame
1:56 Preprocessing
6:42 Splitting to Train and Test
7:29 Training the Model
7:53 Evaluating the Model
12:10 Variations
13:30 Outro

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