The Factual helps people find unbiased news on trending news topics. It applies a machine learning engine to transparently rate 10,000+ articles/day and curates the most credible stories across the political spectrum. The Factual's email newsletter and website are growing fast with strong engagement and retention. The two co-founders are from Stanford and IIT-Madras, and have raised pre-seed funding from Defy Ventures.
Based on our record, Google Scholar seems to be a lot more popular than The Factual. While we know about 999 links to Google Scholar, we've tracked only 5 mentions of The Factual. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
A few may know, that google scholar(https://scholar.google.com/) does not offer a feature for arranging the search results based on the number of citations. Several years ago, one developer published a Python code (https://github.com/WittmannF/sort-google-scholar) to handle this. I had been inspired by his work, but I wanted to show the list of... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
To that point, https://scholar.google.com/ is still useful. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
1) find the doi number [1a][1b] 2) find sources that cite the doi number -> google scholar[2][3] 3) filter for 'github' ----- [1a]resolve a doi name : https://dx.doi.org/ [1b]find a doi number : https://answers.lib.iup.edu/faq/31945 [2] : https://scholar.google.com/ [3] : google with "site:http://doi.org/" [4] : finding a doi in document page :... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Half of those are about science, during my Ph.D., I was told to use scholar.google.com, which works great as far as I can tell. Couple it to sci-hub and you get all the scientific literature you need. Source: 7 months ago
Scholar.google.com exists also which is what you use for studies. Source: 7 months ago
From the site, thefactual.com, MSNBC's credibility, or factual rating, ranks them in the 17th percentile. That means that MSNBC is less factual than 83% of the other news sources presented in the dataset. CNN is in the 15th percentile. Fox News sits right in the middle of these two in the 16th percentile. Source: about 1 year ago
According to thefactual.com, CNN received a Factual Grade of 53.3%, placing it in the 15th percentile. Fox News received a Factual Grade of 53.6%, placing it in the 16th percentile. Both are shitty, but according to this analysis, Fox News is marginally higher. MSNBC received a Factual Grade of 54.9%, placing it in the 17th percentile. You are a Dunning-Kruger ignoramus. Source: over 1 year ago
We also have a newsletter focused on credible news at thefactual.com, and we'd be happy to swab feedback! Source: almost 3 years ago
> Moreover investment of time on user side for newsletter delivering news increases with each newsletter vs One newsletter delivering what I want. You might be interested in this article[1] and the discussion of subscribed vs. Filtered sources. It'd be nice to have a convenient way to assign different priorities to newsletters/content sources. So for a few, you'd get every issue, and for the rest, they'd be... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
Hi there, yes, we're planning a follow-up discussion for this week! Follow us via email at thefactual.com, or social media @thefactualnews and we'll keep you updated on the upcoming discussion. Our previous one did well, and we tackled multiple perspectives with data. We hope you can join the next one! Source: over 3 years ago
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