Babel: A localized news application for everyone.

• Demo Link

• Link to Code

About
Babel is a news application that uses Twitter API to get tweets generated in a location provided by the user.
The ML models (LDA, Topic modelling ,etc) then extracts important tweets which best describes the scenario and displays them as news in the UI.

Tech Stack

• Frontend:
  • ReactJS, HTML, CSS
• Backend:
  • Python(Flask) - for APIs
• Machine Learning:
  • Pandas, Sci-kit, TextBlob, Gensim
• APIs:
  • Twitter API
• Other Tools:
  • Web-scraping(BeautifulSoup4)
  • Cron for automation

Story
Developed this end-to-end application in 24 hrs of "HCL AI Hackathon" and secured 3rd position.