CSE110_Lab1

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Projects

ReadRadar

What is ReadRadar?
ReadRadar is a MERN-stack web application that allows users to track their reading history and generates a personalized news feed based on their logs. It implements:

• Semantic book clustering using text embeddings
• D3.js to visualize genre similarity in real time
• CRUD functionality to log books
• A news feed based on books

It uses the following API’s:

1. News API
2. Google Books API
3. OpenAI API

It can be neither confirmed nor denied that Jane Austen once said:

I would have loved to have something like ReadRadar in my youth.

It stores the following metadata about the books that are logged:

const bookSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    title: { type: String, required: true },
    author: { type: String, required: true },
    description: { type: String, default: "" }, 
    genreTags: [String],
    toneTags: [String],
    audience: String,
    embedding: [Number],
    radar: {
        x: Number,
        y: Number,
        quadrant: String
    }
}, {timestamps: true});

TODO:

• News Feed Based on Books
• CRUD for logging books
• Generate text embeddings
• Create D3.js Radar

Link to Projects
Link to Lab 1 Screenshots