News Aggregator Service for Astrology (NASA): A Free Research Tool
Welcome. This free tool culls news sites for astrologically actionable data.
Provided for each entry is:
Every day, it gets smarter, and new events are added, so check back often.
Provided for each entry is:
- category (for example, "hurricane")
- event date
- event time
- event place
- keywords (for example, "katrina")
- originating source URL for the data
- URL publication date.
Every day, it gets smarter, and new events are added, so check back often.
Currently, the following separate categories of data being monitored are:
- accident
- announcement
- assassination
- birth
- bitcoin
- coup
- crash
- cyclone
- death
- earthquake
- epidemic
- explosion
- fire
- game
- hospitalization
- hurricane
- IPO
- match
- merger
- miracle
- pandemic
- premiere
- shooting
- tsunami
- volcano
- wedding.
Do you have a favorite research topic that is not included here? Submit a different category for consideration:
Presently, the news publications being monitored are:
- Google News
Submit a different publication for consideration:
Culling of news data typically happens once or twice daily and is aggregated over the time.
Today's up-to-date news tally for each category is the following:
Today's up-to-date news tally for each category is the following:
Note that this is an automated service. Data are not checked by hand before inclusion. Ymmv.
Acquire new news data.
After clicking on the above link, in the new browser window simply choose the "save" option to download the data to your hard drive. You will then be able to open it by any software that can handle .csv files. For example, you can use R, Python, Excel or LibreOffice to further select keywords and to change the format for inclusion in your particular astrology software. Going to the URL allows you to cross-check the data.
Version release notes for the news aggregator:
0.1 Mar 31, 2021: GPT3 has been removed as a processing tool, as the final cost per net entry for sifting through all of the possibilities in the news is presently as high as $2-3.
0.1 Mar 9, 2021: A wholesale set of changes has been implemented. For finding event date, time, and place, GPT3 is being used along with other tools. Also, only Google News now is being searched. It appears that by using these tools, false negatives and false positives are diminished. All older data are discarded due to their heavy inclusion of wrong entries.
0.1 Mar 31, 2021: GPT3 has been removed as a processing tool, as the final cost per net entry for sifting through all of the possibilities in the news is presently as high as $2-3.
0.1 Mar 9, 2021: A wholesale set of changes has been implemented. For finding event date, time, and place, GPT3 is being used along with other tools. Also, only Google News now is being searched. It appears that by using these tools, false negatives and false positives are diminished. All older data are discarded due to their heavy inclusion of wrong entries.
The allied Wikipedia project described below is not currently being maintained. Hopefully in the next few weeks (Mar-Apr 2021) its mantle will again be picked up.
In contrast to new news data, the service is also interested in the much slower job of searching for day, time, and place for historical events for each category, as described in Wikipedia articles. The virtues of this different file are that it is far more comprehensive and the data tend to be of greater accuracy.
The tally so far for each category in the historical Wikipedia file is:
The tally so far for each category in the historical Wikipedia file is:
We are currently in the midst of the active collection process, however. So, check back often for addenda. [Edit: presently not true.]
Acquire historical Wikipedia data.
After clicking on the above link, in the new browser window simply choose the "save" option to download the data to your hard drive. You will then be able to open it by any software that can handle .csv files. For example, you can use R, Python, Excel or LibreOffice to further select keywords and to change the format for inclusion in your particular astrology software. Going to the given subject in Wikipedia allows you to cross-check the data.
Version release notes for the Wikipedia data:
0.11 Oct 21, 2019: BERT net chosen over ELMo. Service was resumed. All data from version 0.1 was deleted.
0.1: Collection started Mar 31, 2019 and is scheduled to run until early May, 2019, in order to cull for the first time all categories. [Actually, service was put on hiatus in mid April, 2019.]
Version release notes for the Wikipedia data:
0.11 Oct 21, 2019: BERT net chosen over ELMo. Service was resumed. All data from version 0.1 was deleted.
0.1: Collection started Mar 31, 2019 and is scheduled to run until early May, 2019, in order to cull for the first time all categories. [Actually, service was put on hiatus in mid April, 2019.]
A diagram of the complexity of just one of the neural nets used in the NASA research tool
If you would like to read more on the background of this tool, here is an aged short whitepaper that went with the first iteration of the tool.