International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication ISSN: 2321-8169 Volume: 11 Issue: 11s DOI: https://doi.org/10.17762/ijritcc.v11i11s.8076 Article Received: 24 June 2023 Revised: 18 August 2023 Accepted: 02 September 2023 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 107 IJRITCC | October 2023, Available @ http://www.ijritcc.org An Open-Source Platform for Real-Time Preliminary Diagnosis amongst Adults using Data Analytics Kalpana Sharma 1 , Sital Sharma 2 , Sunil Dhimal 3 , Biswaraj Sen 4 , Ashis Pradhan 5 *, Vikash Kumar Singh 6 1 Computer Science and Engineering Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology,SMU Majhirar East Sikkim, India kalpana.s@smit.smu.edu.in 2 Computer Science and Engineering Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology,SMU Majhirar East Sikkim, India sitalneo@gmail.com sital.s@smit.smu.edu.in 3 Computer Science and Engineering Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology,SMU Majhirar East Sikkim, India sunildhimal@gmail.com 4 Computer Science and Engineering Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology,SMU Majhirar East Sikkim, India biswaraj.s@smit.smu.edu.in 5 Computer Science and Engineering Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology,SMU Majhirar East Sikkim, India *corresponding author ashis.p@smit.smu.edu.in 6 Computer Science and Engineering Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology,SMU Majhirar East Sikkim, India Vikash.s@smit.smu.edu.in Abstract— Depression can be defined as a mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood, loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life. Technical intervention to screen depression in non-clinical population which records, classify depression on the basis of severity and provide features or predictors that discriminate the classification of depression among non-clinical population comprising of college students is the main area of the study. Beck Depression Inventory – II (BDI-II), as per Diagnostic and Statistical manual of Mental disorder (DSM IV) is used to screen depression and its severity. Indicators are determined on the basis of how well the features or predictors can discriminate the classes of depression severity. Providing quality indicators which help in supporting the process can be considered as symptoms for screening depression. Descriptive analytics is used in order to find the underlying pattern of the responses captured, factor analysis groups variables on the basis of correlation between patterns of the responses to reduce dimension. The approach for supervised descriptive analysis method that takes BDI-II questions as features and refine the features using information gain and linear discriminant analysis as feature selection algorithm. The classification of severity of depression is done using Support vector machine (SVM).. Keywords- Data analytics, Depression, Machine learning, Healthcare, Mental Health, Diagnosis of Depression. I. INTRODUCTION In the field of psychology and psychiatry, depression refers to sadness and other related emotion and behaviours (Khodayari- Rostamabad, A. et al 2010). Technical intervention to screen and analyse depression symptoms in a given set of population can give us the information about the population and their struggle with depression. Depression being a subjective mental disorder, whose effects and responses changes as per the environment,