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Find which news acticles Carleton students care about, with analyzation of trends

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CU-News is a web app that displays news articles from multiple reputable sources and finds which news articles Carleton students care about through a voting system, and analysis of trends.

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Voting System

Each article has key phrases extracted from it and upvoting an article adds points to all key phrases associated to that article. Popular key phrases show us issues/topics people care most about.


Analytics

The popularity of all key phrases can be graphed over time, and key phrases can be compared to each other.

Note:

  • Currently only the top key phrase is being graphed at the top of the page
  • Currently only a line graph can be displayed
  • Currently time is shown in unix time