News Headlines

Daily local Toronto news stories from Jan 19, 2021 - Feb 14, 2021
What's being reported on in Toronto?

What news data looks like

Headline and news description collected daily from Bing News API
This data was feed into through natural language processing (NLP) models to generate topic, sentiment, and keywords data
Pretrained NLP models provided by Hugging Face

3 news headline samples

Most popular keywords

Explore top news keywords by category with at least 30 hits

Topics Trending

News related to health (mostly COVID-19) decreased steadily throughout 2021
Other catorgories show no clear trend

Weekday vs Weekend News

Weekend news shifts towards sports stories vs more business and health stories during weekdays

News Sentiment

Sentiment analysis by topic shows a few trends

  • Sports, Business, Entertainment stories shew towards more positive stories
  • Health, Crime, Politics stories shew negative
  • All Other topics are balanced

  • Sources: Bing API (News)
    Models: Facebook Bart (topics); Roberta (NER keywords); Cardiffnlp (Sentiment Analysis)