2. Glimpse on Digital News
76% 76%of Internet users read news online.
An online user spends an average of 50
min reading news from various
sources.
Source: PEW 2012.
7. Basic Questions
Why do people read News?
What is in the News?
Which News are people talking about?
8. Basic Questions
Why do people read News?
What is in the News?
Which News are people talking about?
Knowing all this, how do I create
something meaningful?
9. News-Now
News which people are talking
about.
News News
News News
News
News News
News
News
News
News
www.news-now.us
10. Under the Hood
RSS feeds from 30 news websites (CNN, NYT etc)
Cleanup, Filtering duplicates
Rank
Algorithm Awesomeness
Bigrams & Trigrams
Keyword Recommendation
Remove keywords with same news
Unique Keyword Recommendation
11. Under the Hood
RSS feeds from 30 news websites (CNN, NYT etc)
Cleanup, Filtering duplicates
Rank
Algorithm Awesomeness
Bigrams & Trigrams
Search for bigrams as hashtags
Search for trigrams as text
Associate score
Keyword Recommendation
Remove keywords with same news
Check for Wikipedia link
Unique Keyword Recommendation
12. Example
Sony shows Playstation 4 capabilities. Sony announces Playstation 4 for Holiday 2013.
(#Sonyshows) (#Sonyannounces)
(#showsPlaystation) (#announcesPlaystation)
(#Playstation4) (#Playstation4)
(#4capabilities) (#4Holiday)
(#Holiday2013)
(#Sonyshows)
(#showsPlaystation) (#Sonyannounces)
(#Playstation4) (#announcesPlaystation)
(#4capabilities) (#Playstation4)
(#4Holiday)
(#Holiday2013)
Playstation 4
15. About Me
Graduate Student in Aeronautics @ Caltech
Research:
• High-speed propulsion
• Supersonic aircrafts (New York to London in 2hrs ) X-43a
Coolest Project:
Mission design for sending humans to asteroid
Die hard fan of Cricket!
16. About Me
Graduate Student in Aeronautics @ Caltech
Research:
• High-speed propulsion
• Supersonic aircrafts (New York to London in 2hrs ) X-43a
Coolest Project:
Mission design for sending humans to asteroid
Die hard fan of Cricket!
