NYTimes Article Word Visualization Generator

Overview

Utilizing the NYTimes API, this app creates word visualizations based on articles of a user's selected topic.

About

• Pulls top articles from NYTimes and generates graphics based on most frequently appearing words from said articles.

  • Visualizations come in the forms of a word frequency distribution line graph and a wordcloud, which is an image composed of words, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency.

• Wordclouds can be generated based on top stories from a given topic, or from the most emailed, seen, or shared articles.

• Amount of time to consider articles from is customizable as well, from the choices of 1, 7, and 30 days.

• Streamlit run main.py command must be issued in terminal to run application properly

To do

• Reorganize code into separate files and classes.
  • Add proper encapsulation between said newly-created files.
• Create a more robust front-end as to improve user experience.