TreeHacks2017

https://devpost.com/software/spectrum-tvf0u4

Goal

Provide casual news readers additional insightful and contextual information about what they're reading and ultimately broaden their view

Summary

Components

Front end

• Popup
  • Summary
  • Article Spectrum
  • Suggestions (Content Based)
    • Suggestion Spectrum

Backend

• News Spectrum Indexing (Joseph)
  • IBM AlchemyLanguage API -> Indexing (Joseph)
  • Suggestions Generator (Joseph)
• Summarization Generator (Ryan)

Workflow

Backend

• News Spectrum Indexing
  • Test OccupyDemocrats, Breitbart, NPR
  • Generate corpus of each
    • Test whether there is significant correlation between sentiment

Resources

News Sources

• OccupyDemocrats
• Us.Uncut
• HuffingtonPost
• MSNBC
• Atlantic
• Slate
• Vox
• The Guardian
• NPR
• BBC
• WashingtonPost
• New York Times
• ABC News
• AP
• Reuters
• USA Today
• CNN
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Economist
• The Fiscal Times
• The Hill
• Fox News
• Red State
• The Blaze

To use as baselines

• Huffington Post
• The Washington Post
• Fox News

To produce corpus:

• BBC
• The Economist
• The Fiscal Times
• WallStreetJournal
• MSNBC
• Occupy Democrats