Feel It

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  HOW DO YOU FEEL?

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  Sentiment Comparisons

Inspiration

Today more than ever, opinions are critical to the success of any endeavor. Gauging interest on topics is key to understanding your customers/audience. We decided to build a tool to measure and compare public opinion on any topic you can think of so that our users will have the tools to tack an increasingly social-media driven world.

What it does

How Do You Feel measures opinions on literally any topic. Simply enter any name, phrase, product or company, and our tool will analyze thousands of social media posts, giving you detailed information about how opinions on that subject have evolved over time and hot it compares to its competitors. Our sentiment analysis tool outputs values ranging from -1 to 1, the magnitude of the output is directly proportional to how positive peoples outlook on your query are.

How we built it

With a polished reach frontend and a python driven node backend (utilizing scrapy to gather social media data), we were able to produce this tool in a little under a day.

Challenges we ran into

Many social media outlets disapprove of serving a single user hundreds of thousands of posts in a single day. Our scraping tools were denied access more often as the day went on, and we had to come up with strategies to allow us the data that we needed to create a useful service.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're very proud of the polish on this product, and we're excited to see how its versatility will be applied!

What we learned

Thinking on our feet was critical to this process, with a timeline this short, making quick decisions and reprioritizing on the fly is essential

What's next for How Do You Feel

We hope to test out this product and expand upon its functionality as the weekend progresses. We know this idea has a truckload of potential, and we're excited to see where this idea can take us.

Built With

• flask
• python
• react
• scrapy