This project is intended to help explore travel stories by thousands of people that have been submitted to the Travel Nomad Contest.
Hopefully this makes the submissions of these aspiring writers fun to explore, and that a wide audience of users finds it interesting; whether it be aspiring travel writers, daydreaming office workers thinking about exploring a new destination, or social scientists interested in understanding why and how people travel.
In a time where it feels like differences between nations and their people are amplified, I hope this serves as reminder that so many of us are connected through the way we experience our planet and each other.
For more background, insights, and technical details; check out this Blog Post
This project is made possible thanks to the following packages and data:
Files are obtained from the submissions of writers to the travel nomad website
Code is inside the ./scraper folder.
Took about ~4 hours of coding and ~24 hrs to download (slow connection while travelling in Sri Lanka :p)
still work in progress ... for now, using doc2vec. Details in story2Vec folder.
After experimenting with Cytoscape, settled on VivaGraphJS.
npm install
npm run serve
The script ./deploy.sh runs npm run build and pushes the dist folder to github.