Newsline

Inspiration: News happens in the present, but needs to be read from the past. Many a times this is neccessary for getting the full picture. Especially, in these days of social media opinion warfares, news(true or hoax) is being widely used by people as a factual weapon to prove themselves right. Also we have, the set of people who love to equip themselves with better and accurate information in a chronological order. Chronology plays a big part in the way a person interprets, remembers and recreates a specific news.

What it does: NEWSLINE where News represents what happens in the present, what happened in the past and possibly why and how it happened. Thus, its easy for people to understand the news, thus remember and share it better.

In short, we help searching for the stories around the News you see now. It's more than New's...

How we built it: We built an easy representable UI to present the timeline of data with minimum effort from the user.

Challenges we ran into: Lack of data- The data API returned was not equipped to handle historical data. We had to tweak the data a bit to prepare ourselves for the demo.

Accomplishments that we're proud of: We believe the timeline representation is a novel representation to build news around a news.

What we learned

What's next for Newsline- Newsline could have future news as well to interest the readers. This can be done by modelling the data which could possibly help the editor to predict whats coming on a particular matter. He/she could simply run the model to report the prediction with a probability of occurrence of an event.

Built With

• android
• mysql
• node.js