BeginsWithU

With social media sparking conversation on important topics, we wanted to help make these conversation to be more impactful. Our app gives users on social media access to resources that my be helpful.

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What inspired us

  • Social media has a lot of conversation going and it is rare that we find anything on twitter that directly tells us an actionable way to get involved in that issue
  • Social media raises awareness and we wanted to use that awareness and make it more socially beneficial

What we learned

  • We learned that it is not easy to analyze social media data and filter it out to create something that will find tweets that could help raise awareness.
  • We learned more about natural language processing and how it's useful in a project like this
  • We also learned about creating twitter bots.

How we built it

  • Gathers twitter trends and uses natural language processing(via the vader package) to see peoples feeling towards a trend
  • Naively isolates keywords from tweets for retrieving charity data
  • Naively searches for charities and other information related to trend
  • A twitter bot provides people with links previously gathered
  • The Flask app does some visualization and displays bots tweets

Challenges

  • There won't always be trending topics that require attention so thats why we have a test case text file
  • The search for charities is still naive and needs to be improved before completely deploying the bot
  • Tweets in foreign languages causes gaps in data
  • We use limited data to make it usable for the hackathon, more optimization and more data will be needed for later.
  • The bot was not completely finished as we wanted to make it reply to popular tweets
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