PageOneX

PageOneX is an interactive media analysis tool for measuring front pagenewspaper coverage. It allows anyone to visually select portions of newspaper front pages relevant to a particular topic and compare content over both publications and time.

The application uses a Ruby on Rails back end with a MySQL database, and a javascript front end. When I joined the project, the application was partially implemented as part of a Google Summer of Code project. My role, in collaboration with Rahul Bhargava, was to take the project from a partially complete prototype to a production-ready web application. We met regularly with Pablo Rey Mazon, the project's creator to discuss features and user stories. The final product won the 2014 American Political Science Association Best Software Award.