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Project Dossier- Research project that aims to provide social media sentiment analysis for public infrastructure projects and more!

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Welcome To The Dossier Project

A public opinion analytics project

Goal

A website where the user (being the government?) can gauge public opinion on government projects in order to better predicate next steps in the current life line of the project.
Website will also aid in the prediction of how to approach given results If negative public opinion then suggest some sort of public announcement pertaining to the problem if deemed appropriate (might be better to let it go at times)

Scrape social media sites to get data on public opinion.

Features

  • Create and track public reaction to a project More info coming soon...

  • Compare and evaluate a project More info coming soon...

  • Event Tracking More info coming soon...

  • Public outreach and emergency reaction More info coming soon...

Developers Guide

Getting Started

To get started with Dossier, first clone the repo and cd from the terminal/cmd-prompt into the directory where you cloned.

Then run:

Yarn

This ensures all the dependencies are installed on your local machine for the project. If you fail to do this step the project will not run.

Additionally, make sure you follow the instructions for installing react.

[Installing Ract] (https://reactjs.org/docs/installation.html)

Setting up a local python flask server

This project utilizes pythong flask and Pythong-tweeter library. In order to test the site locally you must set up and download files for this locally. Please contact main contributor for access to the server files and instructions on setting it up. For privacy reasons we cannot put the server API here on github at this time