Inspiration

  • Making news more interesting according to users
  • Receiving news that are not relevant at all
  • Post good quality articles

What it does

  • Real time virality prediction of content
  • Push the content directly from Dashboard to the app on a click
  • Learn the latest trends automatically using Machine Learning

How we built it

  • Data scraping -- Machine Learning -- Real time prediction -- App push notification
  • JavaScript -- Chrome Extension -- Semantically similar words -- GloVe

Challenges we ran into

  • Data scraping issues (context based research)
  • Chrome extension issues (which didn't work initially)
  • Training large data set

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Was able to create a working demo within the time span.

What we learned

  • Develop something big in a very short span

What's next for notJusNews & GoViral

  • Predict virality based on geolocation and time
  • Integrate the chrome extension with the dashboard
  • Real time data analytics for the prediction
  • Support for other languages
  • Rephrase headlines according to the user behavior for specific class of users in the app to increase user engagement
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