A Candidate Like You is a multi neural network website aimed at finding you the presidential candidate that is the most like you, however you determine that.
- A ChatBot prompts conversation with the user about their political views
- Two neural networks analyze speech patters, language use, and vocabulary to create an opinion profile on the user
- Once enough data has been gathered, the user is shown the politician that best matches their custom opinion profile
Example of ChatBot conversation
- A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is trained on 135 images of each presidential candidate with the goal of classifying the candidate
- The CNN is tested on 15 images of each candidate
- Achieved ~85% training accuracy and ~62% testing accuracy
- The CNN outputs the candidate who looks like you the most, and a saliency map that represents what the neural network is looking at
Example of image saliency
