Project Description How does the sentiment vary between news outlets portraying the same events?

Authors Henry Knopf, Richard Pham, Emerson Webb

Timeline

• 3/29: Proposal Due
• interval : work
• 5/10: Final Presentation

Higher-level steps

1. access API called newsapi to get metadata (urls and their corresponding news sources and dates); please see url_retrieve.R
2. gather raw text data; please see html_text_extract.R
3. parse data, store this in folder shiny_data.
4. Run app, which retrieves local data from shiny_data to plot according to user-specifications.