NIFTY is a system that finds mutations of a single piece of information across the daily news cycle. Based on Memetracker, each day, the system parses through 3.5 million news articles and 2 million mentioned quotes to find the top quote clusters through a process called incremental clustering. NIFTY was developed over a 10-week period as part of CURIS, Stanford's undergraduate research program. It has a wide variety of applications ranging from viewing popular election quotes to seeking the trends for a particular keyword.
Caroline Suen, Sandy Huang, and Chantat Eksombatchai are all computer science majors at Stanford. They are advised by professor Jure Leskovec and research scientist Rok Sosic.