Predicting the Popularity of Social News Posts
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چکیده
This project demonstrates that machine learning can be used to accurately predict a post’s popularity. After collecting several thousand posts from HackerNews over several weeks, basic machine learning techniques were applied to a generic set of features. After analyzing trends in the data and refining the learning processes, our model predicted a post’s popularity with 85% accuracy. These results demonstrate that basic machine learning models can be used to predict the popularity of social media posts Keywords—Social News; Machine Learning
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