/TreeHacks2017

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TreeHacks2017

https://devpost.com/software/spectrum-tvf0u4

Goal

Provide casual news readers additional insightful and contextual information about what they're reading and ultimately broaden their view

Summary

Components

Front end

  • Popup
    • Summary
    • Article Spectrum
    • Suggestions (Content Based)
      • Suggestion Spectrum

Backend

  • News Spectrum Indexing
    • IBM AlchemyLanguage API -> Indexing
    • Suggestions Generator
  • Summarization Generator

Workflow

Backend

  • News Spectrum Indexing
    • Test OccupyDemocrats, Breitbart, NPR
    • Generate corpus of each
      • Test whether there is significant correlation between sentiment

Resources

spectrum

News Sources

  • OccupyDemocrats
  • Us.Uncut
  • HuffingtonPost
  • MSNBC
  • Atlantic
  • Slate
  • Vox
  • The Guardian
  • NPR
  • BBC
  • WashingtonPost
  • New York Times
  • ABC News
  • AP
  • Reuters
  • USA Today
  • CNN
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • The Economist
  • The Fiscal Times
  • The Hill
  • Fox News
  • Red State
  • The Blaze

To use as baselines

  • Huffington Post
  • The Washington Post
  • Fox News

To produce corpus:

  • BBC
  • The Economist
  • The Fiscal Times
  • WallStreetJournal
  • MSNBC
  • Occupy Democrats