CS7CS4/CSU44061 Machine Learning – Final Report

Can a clickbait article be identified by its headline?

An analysis of the effects of pay-per-click on established digital news media.

Authors: Ross McCrann, Cian Higgins & Holly Baker

TRAINING Dataset Structure

Column 1: Headline ("People can't believe how she makes 10000 dollars a day!")

Column 2: Date (01/06/2008)

Column 3: Value (0 = NOT Clickbait, 1 = Clickbait)

Column 4: Publisher Name ("NY TIMES")