top | item 42918328 I used Google Gemini Pro to compare party manifestos for an Indian election 3 points| shijithpk | 1 year ago |github.com 8 comments order hn newest shijithpk|1 year ago Hi, my name is Shijith and I'm a data journalist from India.So we have a state election in Delhi this week (Feb 5), and I wanted to make a guide to help residents decide who to vote for.Now parties usually declare their political platforms, their programs etc. in manifestos released before the election.These manifestos are 20-30 pages long sometimes, and can be a slog to get through.And if there is a particular issue you're worried about, say pollution, it's difficult to compare them all at once.I decided to bring AI into the picture to compare the manifestos on 10 key issues like pollution and eduction.Specifically, I used Google's AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro to scrape the various pdfs and generate the text for the comparison.The github repo contains the python code I used to interact with the API.You can see the guide I created at https://data.indianexpress.com/projects/manifesto-guideI also wrote a long twitter thread that goes into more detail on how this was made: https://x.com/shijith/status/1879145563234648564If you have any questions or feedback, do let me know. Thanks! -shijith ksynwa|1 year ago The Indian Express page should explicitly state that the comparison was done using AI. Maybe it's because I am on mobile but I don't see anything of that sort. load replies (1)
shijithpk|1 year ago Hi, my name is Shijith and I'm a data journalist from India.So we have a state election in Delhi this week (Feb 5), and I wanted to make a guide to help residents decide who to vote for.Now parties usually declare their political platforms, their programs etc. in manifestos released before the election.These manifestos are 20-30 pages long sometimes, and can be a slog to get through.And if there is a particular issue you're worried about, say pollution, it's difficult to compare them all at once.I decided to bring AI into the picture to compare the manifestos on 10 key issues like pollution and eduction.Specifically, I used Google's AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro to scrape the various pdfs and generate the text for the comparison.The github repo contains the python code I used to interact with the API.You can see the guide I created at https://data.indianexpress.com/projects/manifesto-guideI also wrote a long twitter thread that goes into more detail on how this was made: https://x.com/shijith/status/1879145563234648564If you have any questions or feedback, do let me know. Thanks! -shijith ksynwa|1 year ago The Indian Express page should explicitly state that the comparison was done using AI. Maybe it's because I am on mobile but I don't see anything of that sort. load replies (1)
ksynwa|1 year ago The Indian Express page should explicitly state that the comparison was done using AI. Maybe it's because I am on mobile but I don't see anything of that sort. load replies (1)
shijithpk|1 year ago
So we have a state election in Delhi this week (Feb 5), and I wanted to make a guide to help residents decide who to vote for.
Now parties usually declare their political platforms, their programs etc. in manifestos released before the election.
These manifestos are 20-30 pages long sometimes, and can be a slog to get through.
And if there is a particular issue you're worried about, say pollution, it's difficult to compare them all at once.
I decided to bring AI into the picture to compare the manifestos on 10 key issues like pollution and eduction.
Specifically, I used Google's AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro to scrape the various pdfs and generate the text for the comparison.
The github repo contains the python code I used to interact with the API.
You can see the guide I created at https://data.indianexpress.com/projects/manifesto-guide
I also wrote a long twitter thread that goes into more detail on how this was made: https://x.com/shijith/status/1879145563234648564
If you have any questions or feedback, do let me know. Thanks! -shijith
ksynwa|1 year ago