Matt's First Project Update

by Matt Zimo

14 Jun 2017

Nothing to see here…

I’m not sure if I bit off more than I can chew with this project. I think I’m going to just have it import .txt files from a webpage, unless I can find an easy tool for scraping the text of a website. It also kind of stinks that I am so busy during the work week, so I don’t have any time to really work on the project until the weekend. I’m honestly really discouraged. I think the fast pace of this course is too much for me.

My updated milestones are:

[ ] Read and scrape webpage [ ] Store the text of the webpage into a .txt file [ ] Calculate average word, sentence, paragraph lengths [ ] Find “grade level” writing statistics to compare webpage to [ ] Calculate grade level of webpage [ ] Do some sort of data visualization with the statistics

Advanced milestones:

[ ] Find common words/phrases from known examples of hate literature [ ] Compare website content to hate speech [ ] Generate “hate score” of website

Matt Zimo is an information science grad student at UNC Chapel Hill. Go Vols! Find Matt Zimo on Twitter, Github, and on the web.