Inspiration
Being an international student hunting for jobs during these tough times, it was very underwhelming to see news about market crashes, jobs being rescinded, inflation, etc. At times, I'd have gone days without opening LinkedIn or subreddits. So what if I could get a quick overview of the current day's financial climate?
What it does
The web application lets you enter a search term and lets you know if today's news about the topic is positive or not.
How we built it
We leveraged React, Django, PerigonAPI, and Cohere's Large Language Models to scrape financial news data from the web, classify the collected data and perform sentiment analysis on it and provide the results in a dashboard.
Challenges we ran into
Scraping data from the news sites which had paywall enabled. Annotating the collected data to train our custom model. Generating the headline of a really large text.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We completed the application within 24 hours and our UI looks radddddddddd.
What we learned
Integrating various rate limited APIs into a dashboard without much delays and easily build large language models.
What's next for Should I Watch The News Today?
The project can be extended to specific use cases like content moderation in tweets, subreddits and LinkedIn posts.
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