fairgelle / techcrunch-webapp

A web-app that shows a simple visualization of Techcrunch posts data. The app was created using Bootstrap and hosted online via Heroku.

Techcrunch Web App

Table of Content

1. Project Motivation
2. Installation
3. Dashboard Web App
4. Licensing, Authors & Acknowledgements

Project Motivation

Techcrunch is an American online news platform reporting on the latest tech and start-ups news. This project aims demonstrate how we can develop a simple web app using Bootstrap and hosting it online via Heroku. The dashboard consists a simple analysis of Techcrunch's most popular news category, post statistics throughout the years and the most active authors on the platform. All the charts are created using the JS Plotly library.

Installation

The code should using Python version 3.0 and above. The additional libraries required to execute the code can be installed by running pip install -r requirements.txt

Dashboard Web App

The dashboard Web App deployed on Heroku can be visited through this link.

Licensing, Authors & Acknowledgements

Credits to Thiago Balbo for providing the data. Dataset can be found here on Kaggle.