Final Project plan

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Project idea: Fake News Detector with Python

Members: me (Allie)

Purpose

• Train model using headlines from recent news
• Create easy tool for distinguishing fake news from real news

Technicals

• Able to sort table data from csv/tsv format
• Use TfidfVectorizer to create model
• Use python packages such as pandas and matplotlib to process data, build classifications
• Javascript documentation in notebook (1)

Timeline

• Week 1: Practice with tools, document hacks (pandas, news api/dataset, matplotlib) with notebooks (1) (2) (3)
• Week 2: Start practicing with modeling software and document in notebook
• Week 3: Start training model with data set, find more if given one doesn't work out
• Week 4: Finish model, make sure it can return output and embed with frontend JS notebook

References

• GeeksforGeeks
• Kaggle data
• Matplotlib