30.221, FYI: Hack The News Global Datathon: January 21-27, 2019

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Subject: 30.221, FYI: Hack The News Global Datathon: January 21-27, 2019

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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:42:29
From: Preslav Nakov [preslav.nakov at gmail.com]
Subject: Hack The News Global Datathon: January 21-27, 2019

 
Hack The News Global Datathon: January 21-27, 2019

Why Hack the News Datathon?

"Propaganda is the new weapon which influences people's opinions or beliefs
about a certain ideology, whether that ideology is right or wrong."

Working toward that direction will make the domain popular and many
open-sourced solutions can be generated. Early identification of propaganda is
crucial to start fighting the manipulation spread in news and test hypothesis
such as which news sources are biased and propagandistic. It will also benefit
the individual user who will be able to check the integrity of news sources.

This motivated us to organize a "Hack the News" Datathon, a Data Science
Hackathon open to the global community.

Data Enthusiasts and Experts in the area of text-mining and NLP are challenged
to develop a machine learning model for identifying propaganda using their
preferred data analysis methods and tools and following cutting-edge
methodology.

We believe that having fun all together solving such a problem is something we
need to focus on.

See more here:
https://www.datasciencesociety.net/datathon/
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 



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