ReelEyes ReviewVisualizer-TigerHacks2023

About the Project

This project is our submission to University of Missouri's TigerHacks 2023 event. The project scrapes movie review text from critics' reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for a given movie title and returns two visualizations.

1. A word cloud of the significant words in the movie reviews
2. A bar plot of the 15 most frequently used, significant words in the critics' reviews

Built With

The entire project was built in Python. The particular packages used in each section will be listed below.

Front-End

• tkinter

Back-End

• Beautifulsoup
• requests
• selenium
• pandas
• matplotlib.pyplot
• wordcloud (see Acknowledgements)

Getting Started

Prerequisites

1. Install Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/
2. Install Python dependencies:

   pip install beautifulsoup4
   pip install requests
   pip install -U selenium
   pip install pandas
   pip install -U matplotlib
   pip install wordcloud
   

Installation

1. Clone Github repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ehildrich/ReviewVisualizer-Tigerhacks2023
   

2. Open gui.py and run in Python editor.
3. Type a movie title into the text field and click the "Go" button.

Usage

Contact

• Dottie Hildrich: ehlidrich
• Roshan Thapa Magar: rosnMagar
• Rebecca Rushman: rrushman02
• Beamlak Tekle: BeamlakTekle

Acknowledgements

• The wordcloud Python package was developed by Github user amueller and is available here
• The following article from Data Camp was used to guide the implementation of the wordcloud package
• The documentation for Tkinter was referred to extensively for this project.