How to choose a subject for a road test

Based on the current design, we can choose one of the high-ranked news items or enter a URL of our own choice to build a corpus around it. The logic in our code works the same for both of them. But the reason that I'm going to choose an independent link as the subject of our investigation is because I can not trust the hot trends or mainstream media any more. As I mentioned earlier in this chapter, as part of the R&D for the Sherlock Project, I had to watch closely the news agency outlets and follow all the pulses when an important news story breaks out. At the same time, I watched how trends respond to news on an hourly basis. And finally, I watched how our application works with the given data.

I encourage everyone to do some experiments with a couple of hot trends and see it for yourselves. When I followed what was suggested by news agencies and supported by hot trends, I expected some insights which would give me a better understanding about...