Fake News Detector

0. About

Create app to detect fake news.

https://fake-news-detector-tz.herokuapp.com/

Files

• models/: scikit-learn models trained in analysis.ipynb
• analysis.ipynb: trains model
• app.py: Streamlit app
• requirements.txt: Python library versions needed to run app

1. Dataset

https://www.kaggle.com/jruvika/fake-news-detection

2. Requirements

2.1 Kaggle API

This requires using the python Kaggle API to download the dataset. Steps to set up Kaggle API:

1. pip install kaggle
2. cd ~/.kaggle
3. Go to www.kaggle.com -> Your Account -> Create New API token
4. mv ~/Downloads/kaggle.json ./
5. chmod 600 ./kaggle.json

2.2 Streamlit

The app uses Streamlit

To run app locally, you should have Streamlit installed.

>> pip install streamlit

Then,

>> streamlit run app.py