Demo of Insight Data Science project

1. whetherChannel:
The coverage you want.
The subjects you care about.
Ben Batorsky

2. Beginning on August 12,
record floods in Louisiana
destroyed thousands of
homes

3. Beginning on August 12,
record floods in Louisiana
destroyed thousands of
homes
A week passed without
national media coverage.

4. Which outlet covers the
things that we care about?

5. Which outlet covers the
things that we care about?
Find out:
whetherChannel

6. Actor 1 Action Actor 2
Events Data Mentions Data
News articles coded by event
Obama Visits Louisiana Flood Victims
All sources mentioning an event
Event ID source
1 www.foxnews.com/obama-visits-lousiana
1 www.ap.org/obama-visits
2 www.foxnews.com/clinton-gives-speech
... ...

7. Actor 1 Action Actor 2
Events Data Mentions Data
News articles coded by event
Obama Visits Louisiana Flood Victims
All sources mentioning an event
Event ID source
1 www.foxnews.com/obama-visits-lousiana
1 www.ap.org/obama-visits
2 www.foxnews.com/clinton-gives-speech
... ...
News articles coded by event
Obama Visits Louisiana Flood Victims
Conflict and Mediation Event Observations
(CAMEO)
USA
GOV
USA042
Make a
visit

8. Actor 1 Action Actor 2
Events Data to features Mentions Data
News articles coded by event
Obama Visits Louisiana Flood Victims
All sources mentioning an event
Event ID source
1 www.foxnews.com/obama-visits-lousiana
1 www.ap.org/obama-visits
2 www.foxnews.com/clinton-gives-speech
... ...
Action
Encoder
Actor
Encoder
Actor
Encoder
+ Me
Group
Type
Country
Group
Type
Country
Levels
1, 2, 3

9. Number of stories about
Louisiana on major news sites
Tone of stories about
Louisiana, by news website

10. ● Predict whether an outlet will
cover a topic
● Five websites, five models:
○ Foxnews.com
○ Reuters.com
○ Ap.org
○ Washingtonpost.com
○ Huffingtonpost.com
● Event-level features
○ Actors -> Type, Group, Geography
○ Actions -> Levels 1, 2, 3
○ Geography
● AUC = .65
● Best model = Random Forest
My approach

11. Actor 1 Action Actor 2
Events Data to features Mentions Data
News articles coded by event
Obama Visits Louisiana Flood Victims
All sources mentioning an event
Conflict and Mediation Event Observations
(CAMEO)
+ Me
Label
Encoder
Label
Encoder
USA
GOV
USA042
Make a
visit
Event ID source
1 www.foxnews.com/obama-visits-lousiana
1 www.ap.org/obama-visits
2 www.foxnews.com/clinton-gives-speech
... ...

12. The future...