Internet Thoughts

internetthoughts.net

P.S we built our sentiment analyis engine into a neat little REST API It's super easy to use :)

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 by Tash-had Saqif, Robert Xu and Jonathan Sun.

Demo for Query "Internet"

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
  • jQuery
  • Embedded JavaScript (EJS)
  • PaperScript
  • Apiheap.js
• HTMl, CSS
• Heroku

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
• Markov chains to predict search queries
• Stability
  • Implement Travic CI
  • Implement SSL

License

Internet-thoughts is licensed under MIT