ATLS 5214: Big Data Architecture (Spring 2022)

Project Name: News Buff

Team Name: Headliners

Team Members-

1. Sagar Pathare
2. Akshay Abhyankar
3. Anusha Basavaraja
4. Pratyush Thota
5. Saumya Bansal

Project Link- https://newsbuff.ml/

This repository contains the Frontend Code

• Backend Repository
• Final Presentation
• Demo Video

Project Description

• News Buff is an interactive world map of global news
• News pins are populated on the map depending on the user inputs - year, month, day, query
• Each news article's location is geocoded and shown on the map
• Sentiment analysis is done on each news article to calculate a sentiment score from -1 to 1
• Each location has an average sentiment score and shows its articles
• Share article via Social Media

Tools used

• Package Manager used is NPM
• Webpack module bundler used for managing the JavaScript codebase
• Main JavaScript Library used for building the front-end is ReactJS
• Interactive Map Framework used is Leaflet
• Major 3rd-party library used for styling and front-end design is Material-UI (@mui/material/...)

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.