sainisatish/news_virality

News_virality help to anticipate the likelihood of news content virality .

News_virality

News_virality help to anticipate the likelihood of news content virality . Data is scrapped from https://www.hindustantimes.com

how it's works

from this research paper(https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04723) i've found that there is a relation between virality of content and sentiment(emotions), so here i'm doing sentiment analysis of each news and based upon it i'm anticipating the likelihood of news content virality.

References

This article provides a comprehensive investigation on the relations between virality of news articles and the emotions they are found to evoke. Virality, in our view, is a phenomenon with many facets, i.e. under this generic term several different effects of persuasive communication are comprised. By exploiting a high-coverage and bilingual corpus of documents containing metrics of their spread on social networks as well as a massive affective annotation provided by readers. https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04723