Echo Chamber Project Reflection

What did you achieve in your project?

We have achievements in mainly 3 aspects:

  1. Polarity Scores
    We cleaned a huge dataset of 39M tweets, and calculated the political polarity scores of users of these tweets.
    Scores are calculated based on the tweets that the user produces (what he/she tweets) and consumes (what their followers tweet).
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Post 4 (Spectral Clustering)

We usually use the sklearn.cluster.KMeans function to identify clusterings in a dataset.
However, when your clusters aren’t blobs (for example, moons or rings), this function can hardly identify your clusters.
Thus, let’s implement an algorithm to identify difficult clusters!

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Post 3 (Flask)

Let’s create an interactive website with Flask!
The website should do 2 things:

  • Allow the user to submit messages to the bank.
  • Allow the user to view a sample of the messages currently stored in the bank.
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Plotly Example

Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to embed interactive HTML figures produced via Plotly on your blog. Just use plotly.io.write_html() to save your figure. Then, copy the resulting HTML file to the _includes directory of your blog. Finally, place the code

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Example post

In this post, I’ll show how to create a helpful histogram of some synthetic data.

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