BCC: BERT Catches COVID

Description

What is BCC? Good question! BCC is a tool to detect COVID-19 misinformation in text-based social media posts.

Built with

• Python (Flask API)
• HTML/CSS
• JQuery

Getting started

Dependencies

Below are the necessary dependencies needed to run our tool:

• Flask==2.0.2
• matplotlib==3.5.1
• numpy==1.22.2
• pandas==1.4.1
• Pillow==9.0.1
• scikit_learn==1.0.2
• torch==1.10.2
• transformers==4.17.0
• wordcloud==1.8.1

Prerequisites

Make sure you have these installed on your device.

• Python v3.8 and above
• Git

Installing

Follow the snippet below to let Git do its magic.

Git:

git clone https://github.com/Millifiore/pandemic_tweets
cd pandemic_tweets/
pip install -r requirements.txt

Executing

You will use flask to run the tool.

flask run

Roadmap

Upcoming updates

• Standalone website

Version history

• 1.0.0
  • Initial release

Help 🤝

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!