Good news

Summer hack day 2016

Chris Birchall

Goal

Automatically discover

good/happy/positive

news articles

Why?

• Users
• Advertisers

Hypothesis

We can use the words in the article body

to predict how positive it is

Method

1. Make a list of frequently used words in recent articles
2. Vectorise articles using this word list
3. Crowdsource labelling of training data
4. Perform stochastic gradient descent using TensorFlow

Results

Awful!

github.com/guardian/hackday-good-news