Creating a Deep Learning Model to Track Trump on TikTok

Joyce
8 min readFeb 6, 2021

In today’s article, we’ll walk through how to create a deep learning model to track when Trump appears on the app TikTok. The purpose of this tutorial is to help journalists around the world better monitor the video-sharing app so that they can track trends and break news faster.

This tutorial is largely based on Pulkit Sharma’s tutorial in Analytics Vidhya:

All the code for this project can be found at this Github:

The Importance of TikTok to Journalists

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Joyce

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