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But why?
by PrimeDirective 10y ago
But why?
- leaksapi 10y agoWas this directed at the previous commenter or the API itself?
- rhizome 10y agoI would guess the API, since the WL page for the Clinton emails already has a search facility. Is this a school project?
- leaksapi 10y agoWe decided to build this after a friend and I discovered that you couldn't really quantify the Clinton emails. Yes, you can search on WL or WSJ, but it's much harder to gain any data-driven insights from that. Yes, you can search for "Benghazi", but can you query against a list of nearby Libyan cities, or run all emails containing the strings "Bernie" or "Sanders" through a sentiment analyzer, etc. Not a school project, though it was a hobby project.
- rhizome 10y agoI must have missed the parts of the API docs that describe sentiment analysis and geofencing queries.