Tag: web scraping

Article Classification and News Headlines Over Time

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How does front page news track a single topic over a period of time? What’s the media’s attention span for a given story?

In general, many find it surprising how quickly major media outlets shift their attention from one story to another. This is partly a reflection of our own attention spans and appetites, and is partly due to the fact that media organizations are incentivized to be the first to break news; as a result readers are more likely to be bombarded with what’s novel instead of what’s important. Continue reading “Article Classification and News Headlines Over Time”

Building a Recurrent Neural Network to Generate Novel Text

Introduction

The purpose of this quick tutorial is to get you a very big, very useful neural network up and running in just a few hours. The goal is that anyone with a computer, some free time, and little-to-no knowledge of what neural networks are or how they work can easily begin playing with this technology as soon as possible. Technical explanations of what RNNs are abound on the internet, so this tutorial will skip explanation and focus solely on building. Continue reading “Building a Recurrent Neural Network to Generate Novel Text”