Digital impersonator is a project about using spaCy, Markov chains/markovify and a RESTful API in Flask to impersonate Donald Trump based on a corpus of data - Tweets or speeches. The front-end displays Donald Trump images with our generated text on them, clearly stating that it is a bot behind.
Run the impersonator by executing run-services.py, or run the two services seperatly (being run-client.py and run-server.py).
Set up development environment
Clone the repo
>>> git clone https://github.com/kentaasvang/digital_impersonator.git
If on unix-system, run setup.sh
>>> ./setup.sh
Who did what
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Middleware: Mathias and Kent
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Front-end: Ørjan
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NLP/NLG: Anca
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Back-end: Mathias and Kent
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Ethical research: Anca/Ørjan
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Git overview: Kent/Mathias
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In order to have better control over GitHub and presentable portfolio deliveries (data cleanup and analysis), Jupyter notebooks have not been commited to GitHub, but have been sent directly to the "integration" team.
IMAGE COPYRIGHT
We are aware that using images from online sources can lead to copyright infingement. However, based on this article, (https://thelawtog.com/memes-violate-copyright-law/), for educational purposes and derivative work, especially for nonprofit educational purposes, we have the "right" to use the images collected.
Templates inspiration
We tried to model the templates to be as close to "the real deal" as possible. We therefore chose from here some good examples: https://allthatsinteresting.com/donald-trump-quotes