Inspiration
We wanted to get a good overview of Buzzfeed articles from the viewers' point of view, by aggregating their comments and extracting most frequent words and phrases, and displaying them in a wordcloud. The wordclouds let us visualize the general consensus of the commenters, by seeing words/phrases that are relatively popular.
How it works
We first aggregate the different Buzzfeed articles that have been published in the last month by using the Buzzes API. We filter out articles that contain less than 10 comments. We obtain the ids from these articles and pass them into the Comments API, and receive the blurbs for each comment. All comments are aggregated for each article, and stored
Challenges we ran into
Retrieving meaningful / appropriate data from user comments. Generating the word cloud.
Accomplishments that we are proud of
Using d3.js to generate a tag cloud from buzzfeed comments.
What we learned
We are not capable of pulling all-nighters. Buzzfeed is awesome!
What's next for BuzzCloud
Meme generation. Mobile platform.
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