Fika News

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  Main page

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  Region selection

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  Word cloud

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  News results

Inspiration

We want to have less biassed media content and at the same time know what is going with the World.

What it does

This platform uses news from GDELT to create a customized experience for the user, so they can easily and intuitively learn what are the issues of the World right now with the bias of normal media.

How I built it

It is built with Flask using jinja2 for the html templates

Challenges I ran into

Small bugs in code, data cleaning, data volume

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The end up with a final and functional product that can indeed be useful for users. With a small amount of time, we were able to get together our differents abilities and mindset and we came up with a product that reflects the values of all members of the group.

What I learned

We improved our communication and program skills. We learned how to better structure a project and how to manage delays in our initial planning. We adapted the idea during the night and we are really proud of the final result.

What's next for Fika News

The next steps for our project will be to implement the history telling for new stories involving a time feature and also integrate the data scraping and cleaning on the fly for users.

Built With

• flask
• jinja
• python