What is this site?

This site aggregates recent news articles about the additive manufacturing industry from various sources and runs a sentiment analysis to check the pulse of the industry.

Sources

• Voxel Matters
• TechCrunch
• Additive Manufacturing Media
• 3D Printing Industry
• More on the way

Data Collection

Data is collected through web scrapers written in python, using Beautiful Soup to extract the necessary data. Data is collected once per day.

Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment analysis is conducted with NLTK using the pre-trained VADER model to analyze the text of each article and assign a sentiment score.

Frontend & Deployment

This site is built in Astro and deployed via Github with Netlify.