Jay Kachhadia, one of the talented researchers on the Illuminating team, recently published an article on Towards Data Science, a Medium publication, describing the tools we use to collect digital political ads, classify these ads, and share the results on the Illuminating 2020 project website. The article provides a great introduction into the infrastructure that is required to create and maintain a project with our scope. You can read the article by following this link.
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Introduction to the Illuminating 2020 Project Architecture