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Hey everyone, this is a weekend project I built - it lets you search through US Presidential candidates’ speeches for topics and see what both candidates have s
by jabo 6y ago
Hey everyone, this is a weekend project I built - it lets you search through US Presidential candidates’ speeches for topics and see what both candidates have said side-by-side (on a largish screen).
My thinking is that with all the divisive misinformation making their rounds these days, hearing what both candidates have said first-hand on the same topic presented in a side-by-side format, could help inform people of all perspectives in an unbiased way.
- RangerScience 6y agoThis is neat, and I really appreciate it! Some thoughts: If there's a way to dilineate between education in a title versus a topic ("Secretary of Education", "patriotic education"), might be good. I'm finding it weirdly hard to go from "the word is here" to "this is the context in which it was said". Some thoughts: If there's a way to always have the search term centered in the block of text, ala that speed reading program. Less aggressive highlighting. Maybe just change the font color, instead of highlighting and spacing. Maybe change the text color of the sentence that it's in (as well), to help me quickly find the start and end of the most-relevant sentence?
- jabo 6y agoThank you for the UI feedback. Are you referring to the text in the main cards, or in the modal when you click on “Read in context”? Re: differentiating between titles vs topics, that would be a hard thing to do with the current setup I have, which is for doing keyword-based searches.
- boogies 6y agoWould you be interested in expanding this to other candidates (like those in other races, running for Vice President, or nominated by other parties)? Would it add significantly more work?
- jabo 6y agoI’d love to. If you’re able to find a repository of transcripts for the speeches, I can add them to the index. May be users can then pick which two candidates to see side-by-side.
- boogies 6y agoI’m not certain exactly what to look for, but ducking “«nominee name» speech transcript” for each of the top three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States#Minor_parties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_Unite... brings these acceptance speeches as the respective top results: https://www.democracyinaction.us/2020/thirdparty/lpconvjorgensen.html https://www.democracyinaction.us/2020/thirdparty/lpconvjorge... https://howiehawkins.us/hawkins-nomination-speech/ https://howiehawkins.us/hawkins-nomination-speech/ https://www.democracyinaction.us/2020/thirdparty/constitutionpartyconvention.html https://www.democracyinaction.us/2020/thirdparty/constitutio... (I can’t seem to find any big repository like rev’s, which for some reason seems to have only speeches from the Democrats, Republicans, and Birthday Party: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/kanye-west-rally-speech-transcript-in-south-carolina-july-19 https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/kanye-west-rally-speech...)
- Judgmentality 6y agoI'm not trying to be snarky here, but are you using 'ducking' as a verb for using duckduckgo? I ask because that makes sense in context, but I naturally assume that word to be a more polite version of 'fucking' because that's how I'm used to seeing it being used. Is ducking something people say?
- boogies 6y agoYes to the first question, and also to the second if you count me and DDG’s (paid) marketing material’s authors (IDK about anyone else) :)
- etwigg 6y agoHere is a repo of every presidential debate in history, in an easy-to-parse format. I'm adding the VP debates in tomorrow: https://github.com/mytakedotorg/us-presidential-debates https://github.com/mytakedotorg/us-presidential-debates