Current status:
What did you work on this week?
We set up the MediaWiki website on our local computers and started playing with it and adding information to it. We are retrieving info/articles from Wikipedia and NYTimes, which we will eventually manipulate with a classification algorithm. We met with Dr. Caverlee, who was very helpful regarding different classification algorithms and also recommended us to scope down our goals, as we are working on a very big project and we are only two people. We continue to compile info.
What problems did you run into?
We believe it is not possible to incorporate information retrieval code with the MediaWiki site, which means we will have two websites. One to hold the wikis and one to display our info and results. Also, the NYTimes API doesn't give us the complete article but only their first paragraph, which is not ideal.
What is the current overall project status?
The project is on its way and we are working hard to make sure we don't fall behind.
What new ideas did you have? These ideas can be beyond the scope of this semester.
We are know aware of the fact that we will probably need two different websites to make out idea work. We are also dividing all the info in two major sections: environmental and human rights/social justice.
The look ahead:
What is planned for next week?
Have the website displaying the information we are retrieving from Wikipedia, NYTimes, and our own wiki whenever the consumer enters the name of a company. Parse and make sense of all the information we have in order to feed it into a classification algorithm. Start looking into the phone app. Meet with our mentor, Dr. Gill.
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