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sohosurf t1_j69fd06 wrote

Reply to comment by PartisanPlayground in [OC] How news stories evolve in the news cycle by PartisanPlayground

May I ask what the four news articles that were in the top ten in the past few days but not yesterday were?

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PartisanPlayground OP t1_j69go80 wrote

Good question! Here they are:

- Oscar nominations

- Ron Klain resigning as Chief of Staff

- Biden and the US-Mexico border

- Abortion

I'm thinking of adding labels to the stories that fell out of the news cycle along the bottom of the chart.

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sohosurf t1_j69hrch wrote

Sorry to do this but what represents each on your graph, thanks for the information.

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PartisanPlayground OP t1_j69ikqe wrote

No worries, here you go:

- 3rd place on Tuesday: Oscar nominations
- 10th place on Monday: Ron Klain resigning as Chief of Staff
- 8th place on Wednesday and Thursday: Biden and the US-Mexico border
- 10th place on Friday: Abortion

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sohosurf t1_j69jco9 wrote

Thanks for being so helpful!

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PartisanPlayground OP t1_j69jf1h wrote

Of course, thanks for your interest!

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i_build_minds t1_j69ncsb wrote

I would regularly check a website with this data - particularly as a news site aggregator (x topic prev, y claims common in all or more than 75% of sources, etc)

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PartisanPlayground OP t1_j69r2qg wrote

I'm producing this daily in a Substack newsletter: https://partisanplayground.substack.com

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i_build_minds t1_j6a0fmt wrote

Nice. Can I recommend this is just a big landing page with the top 10-15 articles or something?

It's easier to critique than to create - so no discourtesy intended - but that's basically my new homepage.

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PartisanPlayground OP t1_j6a0zlr wrote

I've had the same idea. It'd be pretty cool to have this as a big landing page, where hovering over each story on the plot gave you details about the story and links to articles.

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i_build_minds t1_j6aoh0g wrote

Yes! I'll continue to check it out but I hope your idea comes to fruition. It's fantastic.

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PD216ohio t1_j6by3tg wrote

I noticed that from Jan 24-25 the title of the top story changed from Biden Documents to Classified documents. Was this because the subject of the discussion shifted in the media, or was the title changed for another reason. It is still the same "line" of the graph, just renamed.

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PartisanPlayground OP t1_j6cktep wrote

That's right, the labels can change over time as the discussion shifts. GPT-3 does the labeling and I manually adjust it, if necessary. Occasionally, the stories themselves can split or combine.

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iiioiia t1_j6a7iwl wrote

> I'm thinking of adding labels to the stories that fell out of the news cycle along the bottom of the chart.

I think it would be interesting to manually tag various events and then see if there is any temporal correlation between tags of certain types over long periods of time - for example: political scandals may coincidentally be commonly followed shortly by "social" scandals.

LOTS more could be done in this space, especially if one isn't too concerned for their health if you know what I mean.

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merc08 t1_j6ab510 wrote

Discovering something like that seems like that kind of thing that would drive a person to commit suicide by shooting themselves three times in the back of the head.

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