Internet Thoughts
LIVE: http://internetthoughts.net/
Ever wonder what the internet thinks about a certain topic, issue, or person? Well, what better way to gauge the internet's popular opinion than by mass analyzing things said about that topic? Just enter a search query and a sentiment analysis of tons of data in relation to that topic will be returned to you. Find out where you stand amongst the internet! Internet-thoughts was built for YHack 2016 at Yale University.
Team
- Robert Xu |
- Jonathan Sun | jonathon.solar
- Tash-had Saqif | tash-had.com
The magic behind it all
A custom sentiment analysis engine
- We built our own engine to analyze sentiment in the data we fetched
- Data is analyzed using a Corpus
- Engine accounts for slang, emoji's, compound words
Twitter, Reddit & Tumblr API's
- Fetched the most popular tweets, reddit comments and Tumblr posts matching the query, from the last 7 days.
- Parsed the data from the respective platforms for use with sentiment analysis engine
- Platforms chosen specifically to ensure diverse demographic (age groups)
Technologies
- NodeJs, JavaScript, Embedded JavaScript, jQuery, PaperScript, HTMl, CSS, Heroku (hosting)
TODO
- Save data to database for analysis of change over time
- Frequent words Wordmap
- Context
- Count exclamation marks
- Count consecutively repeated letters
- Compare with long term data from database
- Use data from movie reviews, other sources
- Use data from surely positive/surely negative sources (positive news, etc)
- Use letter cases before converting to lowercase
License
Internet-thoughts is licensed under MIT
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