Half-Full Half-Empty

Inspiration

Media bias may be influencing your opinions on many topics including Politics. The responsibility of news outlets includes being truthful, objective and neutral in their articles. This is generally not the case for many news outlets.

Half-Full Half-Empty is here to inform you of possible biases of the articles you are reading so you may be less easily influenced and be reminded to form your own opinion on different issues

What it does

Evaluates news articles on their objectivity and polarity

How did we build it

Django web - ask the user for input URL 

-> web scrape article using BeautifulSoup -> Run python script to do analysis. -> Send output back to template

Challenges

web scrape text cleaning, integration from UI to script

What's next for Half-Full Half-Empty

For future development, should complete sentiment analysis of news article using machine learning.

Built With

• beautiful-soup
• django
• fuzzywuzzy
• python
• requests