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smartchicago / chicagoworksforyou

A citywide dashboard with ward-by-ward views of service delivery in Chicago. Includes complete API. Built using Chicago Open311 data.
http://www.chicagoworksforyou.com
MIT License
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research: integrating news headlines into day detail pages #266

Open qethanm opened 11 years ago

qethanm commented 11 years ago

(listed as nice-to-have feature)

We'd like to incorporate news headlines -- articles about that date -- into each day's detail page. Must research how to acquire data and how to incorporate into CWFY webapp.

qethanm commented 11 years ago

Currently looking into New York Times developer API.

Fetching content appears straightforward (REST calls with JSON response data).

Storage: we could fetch data, over time, to backfill our database

Display: we could pull one or two random headlines for that date, to add to a day's detail page

Caveats: if we take humans completely out of the loop, do we risk showing irrelevant (e.g., only tangentially related to Chicago) or possibly unpleasant (e.g., focus on crime) articles? Since "fun" is one tenet of CWFY, we'd need to be especially careful of that latter case.