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World In Conflict

By Jonathon Kang

Description

Uses a Python API running the newspaper package and Mediameter's CLIFF service to scrape news articles, search them for keywords relevant to global conflict and place them on a Google Map for a visual display of conflict around the globe.

Prerequisites

  • Angular2 JS

Setup/Installation Requirements

ToDo

Known Issues

  • Newspaper filter needs to be more restrictive. Articles irrelevant to global conflict but using similar language(war, battle, etc) passing through the filter.
  • Runtime on newspaper crawling needs to be reduced.

License

MIT