vionwinnie / NewsClassifierDjango

Deploying News Classification ML model using Django and GCP App Engine

Project Name: News Classifier Portal

Purpose:

• Portal for user to enter news article and show news category classification
• Using local surrogate model to display which words in the text triggers such prediction using LIME algorithm

Tech Stack:

• Language: Python 3.7
• Web Application Framework: Django
• Database: sqlite
• Deployment: GCP App Engine

Roadmap:

• Add Lime Explainer
• Migrate to Firebase db

Create local testing environment

• conda create -n newsApp_env python=3.7 pip
• conda activate newsApp_env
• pip install -r requirements.txt

To Start the application:

• python manage.py runserver

News Categories:

• Food
• Sport
• Politics
• Entertainment
• Tech
• Business