BS-Sense

Ever wonder how uninformed the general populace is? Time to find out!

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Inspiration

Can't stand all the BS in the media

What it does

Checks the subjectivity of online content using NLP and makes it easy to decipher the data

How we built it

We built the backend using Python and Flask, the frontend with Bootstrap and HTML5

Challenges we ran into

Getting banned from several APIs, learning MVC design pattern

Accomplishments that we're proud of

WE GOT IT TO WORK

What we learned

So many

What's next for BS-Sense

Geographical Filters, Gender Filters, Improved UI, pooling Data from several other sources

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As we submitted a minute after (yes, after) the deadline we did not get a chance to elaborate on our simple yet sophisticated hack, so here is the more complete description:

Inspiration

With the recent scandals surrounding the spread of fake news, biased reports, and often outright erroneous information proliferating through social media, it's become important to be able to distinguish the objective from the subjective, something we humans are often unable to do due to our natural biases.

What it does

Collects recent posts from social media using Twitter's API (tweepy), runs the data through a language processing algorithm that determines the relative subjectivity and polarity of every post in multiple languages using TextBlob's Language Processing Library, then presents the data in an easy to read, simplified format using Plotly. The information is

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge was not being able to implement all the features we would have liked to see in the final product, as we really pushed our luck with the time limit, especially since we kept getting banned from our main APIs.

Accomplishments

We managed to build a functioning and useful application without any prior knowledge of Machine Learning and Data Representation libraries, as well as overcoming the hurdles of integrating multiple SDKs across different systems in the front and back-end

What we learned

All the above and team before machine :D

What's next for BS-Sense

Demographic filters, refine our text processing further, collect information from even more sources, present the data in a more sophisticated manner

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