Inspiration
Measuring an abstract value has always been a challenge. Advances in technology, particularly machine learning, have enabled us to represent the feelings of people as quantitative values. Thus, we set about using the indico API to do just that.
What it does
Our project takes in a person's social media presence and gives a 0 to 100 sentiment rating.
How we built it
We made a chrome extension to capture content from a person's Facebook page and send it through indico's API using JavaScript and jQuery. The data points are plotted on a popup window as an interactive graph.
Challenges we ran into
Integrating indico's facial recognition api into our extension. Unexpected issues with internet connectivity strength.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Seeing social patterns by combining text and image recognition sentiments from Facebook statuses and photos
What we learned
Making a chrome extension is quite tough but approachable. Each of us is at least somewhat confident in our extension development abilities for the future.
What's next for JYF
Keeping a viewable archive of sentiments over time, and launching it on the chrome web store so everyone can use it.
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