4. It can be used as a business
solution for firms wishing to
visualise news on a map. As
our app gives a location and
a sentiment to the city they
could use this information in
anyway they see fit.
Another possible use is just
as a nifty way of browsing
the news. So say you
wanted the news from
Madrid then you can click on
the location and boom, you
5. Our program grabs the articles from RSS
feeds. We can choose which ones, It then
uses the Alchemy API to gain a location and
sentiment from the article. We currently have
a limitation of 1000 request per a day from
Alchemy. It then sends it to a database
which the client connects through via a
server.
6. Future Plans
If we intent to take this further this is
what we shall do:
- Order the articles on how relevant they are.
- Better UI.
- Continuously updating, so the bubble grows and
shrinks from second to second.
- Possibly add a version of this to mobile devices
and use it as a news outlet.
- Shade in the country as well as the bubble.