Other Side provieds an HTTP API to find similar articles from different sides of the political spectrum
The app consists of two components:
- Feed Processor: Collects articles from pre-defined set of RSS feeds and stores the articles along with the similarity scores between them.
- REST End Point: Given a link, returns the list of related articles
For two given articles, the similarity score is the Jaccard Index of the words from the articles' title and lede.
Priori to the Jaccard Index calculation, a manual list of stop words is removed from the title and lede.