Point of View

Assessing journalistic sentiment on public issues over time using IBM Watson

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Overview

The user gives the following input:

Topic
Two media outlets
Start and end date for analysis

Our product, Point of View, does the following:

Collects relevant articles published within the provided date range by scraping Google search results
Performs sentiment/key-word analysis with IBM Watson's Natural Language Understanding API
Outputs an interactive comparison graph showing how each media outlet covered the topic

Built With

Submitted to

QHacks 2018

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I worked on the web scraping part of the app, which finds articles from a news source about a topic over a time period. I also worked on linking together all of the components of the app.

Ross Hill
I worked on the user interface. I also used flask to set up the python code to take information from our webpage to use in our crawling, and graphing algorithms

Christopher Molloy
I used IBM Watson's Natural Language Understanding API to perform sentiment analysis on the collected data.

I also helped clean up the front end.

Cameron Raymond
Michael Wrana

Updates

Ross Hill started this project — Feb 03, 2018 11:23 PM EST

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