MyChillNews: An NLP-driven guide for conscious consumption of stressful news

Daniel Saunders participated in the Insight Health Data Science program in the Fall of 2016, and currently works as a Data Scientist at Wayfair. Previously, Daniel was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences of the University of Trento, and received his PhD in Psychology from Queen's University. While at Insight, Daniel built an NLP-driven engine to generate stress impact scores for newspaper front pages, trained on the reactions of Facebook users to news story headlines. In this blog post, he describes his creative process in developing this project. For my Insight Health Data Science project, I wanted to tackle a problem related to mental health, since my Ph.D. is in Psychology and my father is a mental health advocate in British Columbia.