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Here is the poster I created about my capstone project. I do plan to continue this project in the future so I will update the poster in the future.

Here is my paper for the Capstone Project that I turned in on May 3rd, 2020. Hopefully, in the future, I will have an updated version.

Information informs our entire lives. Information shapes public opinion which shapes things like public policy, elections, the health and safety of the public, and more. No one is above the harm that can come from misinformation, which is why we need to fight against its spread. Fake News as an area of research is relatively … Read more

This week I focused on getting part of the PolicialNews Data set from Castello et al. to work with Weka to be able to see if I can recreate the results used by their classification methods Downloaded a tool to combine excel files into one sheet without data loss, manually added headers and an extra … Read more

I found a data set that would be the easiest to recreate results with I just need to merge the data set of credible news and the data set of non-credible news with an added column denoting whether it was real or fake to be able to test However, I ran into a major hiccup … Read more

I have spent this week analyzing the data sets that I have to see if there are any outside things that I need for these data sets to be able to be tested using Weka. I have found that some required me to have my app registered with Facebook Developers and Disqus and some were … Read more

I have started to keep a log of what I do every day for this project so if something goes wrong I know where to back up and begin again. This will also help later when writing about my process for the poster/paper I have started mapping all the datasets I found to what papers … Read more

This week I recovered all of the data sets I found last semester that were on my other computer. I then downloaded and extracted the data. I also chose to set up my own Developer SQL database on my laptop so that I can keep my training data and the user data in one accessible … Read more

I bought a new computer over the break because my older one was unreliable and crashed unexpectedly from time to time. So I spent this first week setting up the computer and downloading the tools that I believe I’ll be using. I also have spent a lot of time hunting down the data sets from … Read more

I spent the vast majority of this week looking for projects that have specifically detailed how they implemented a fake news detector and reading through the articles I’ve already found. While some have given a lot more detail on their process, unfortunately, I can’t understand some of the details. A lot of the details go … Read more

I focused this week on fixing my first proposal. I re-did all of my diagrams so that they would use the proper shapes I re-wrote my design section I add more to my introduction to better explain the importance and the gaps I elaborated about the timeline and gave a high level overview by month … Read more

I spent a lot of time this week trying to closely read the texts I’ve found already to try and find any mention of the data set they are using. This was very difficult because the research articles usually don’t name what their data set was called or don’t explain where to find the data … Read more

Started my work in reviewing new found research that has more relevant research about a fake news detector application Finished my first draft for my project proposal I will need to update my related works section because of the new research I’ve found After the peer review session, I will need to go back and … Read more

This past week I have been trying to find more research papers that discuss how to create a prototype fake news detector instead of papers that just talk about how to discern fake news from media. The hunt for those kinds of papers is more difficult than the one for methods of fake news detection … Read more

I’ve been working on the Lit Review and Proposal Outline this week and I finally finished the Lit Review fully. My Lit Review included sections on: Data sets: what kind of data has been tested and what do they extract from the data to use as a way of identifying misinformation Identification/Classification Methods: what approaches … Read more

I wrote my project proposal this week and I already had most of the info ready. The sections that I didn’t feel really prepared for were the design and what software/hardware do you need sections. I didn’t have a good idea of what should go into my design and what counts as a component I’m … Read more

After reading articles for my literature review, I see that there are a lot of different ways to identify and classify media with misinformation. I will need to do a bit of work to be able to combine all the methods in a way that it will be able to identify and classify media of … Read more

I’ve chosen Charlie as my adviser for my project The idea that I picked for my Capstone is my Fake News Detection Idea The basic idea is that I would create a website/application and a website extension that takes mediums as input and will tell the user if it is factual or not

The First Responders Tech idea is not panning out in terms of finding any relevant research articles so that may be way to difficult for me to achieve in this time frame The Secure Paperless Voting Machine is working out in terms of finding research articles but upon reading a couple of the them, I’ve … Read more

Updates in Ideas My first “Fake News Detector” idea has remained mostly the same I still have not come up with a more doable idea for the secure paperless voting machines because there’s so much oversight with voting regulations and laws and because there’s an added obstacle of different voting systems/mechanisms. My “911 Tech” has … Read more

Summary of Updates: This week I spent a lot of time trying to refine my last two ideas to make it more suitable for a capstone and tried finding enough research articles about all three ideas. I struggled with finding related articles to my second idea so I came up with a fourth idea that … Read more

First Idea: Credibility Analyzer Create a database of media of different opinions that are credible with truthful information. Using Machine Learning, find/develop an algorithm that when given a medium could accurately determine whether it is credible and truthful. Create an app/website/browser extension as a user interface where you can manually input the medium you want … Read more

Name of My Project Who’s Running?: In depth look at who’s running for what, when, and info about them. What research topic/question is my project going to address? How to reduce number of uniformed voters? How to dynamically update a website when something with certain keywords is uploaded on the web? How to do that … Read more