Scandal_Period_Classifier

Background

A research agency would like to detect period of time where various agencies of certain government received unusuallt high news coverage. These anomalies are used as a proxy for period where this agency experienced some sort of scandal.

Goal

Use the provided data to build a classifier that predicts whether an article was written during a 'scandal period' for the agency PEMEX. Keep in mind that different scandals might have different determining characteristics.