You know how when you become comfortable with someone, you sometimes may become a little more blunt?

Sometimes we may not notice if the tone of our emails is overly positive or negative. It's important to occasionally stop and reflect that we are treating the people around us with respect. The Unconscious Bias project is a Windows universal application allows you to use data to analyze the sentiment of your emails to a given email address.

James Sturtevant and Jennifer Marsman developed “Unconscious Bias” at the hack.nyc event on April 13-14, 2016. We created a Windows universal application in which the user can specify an email address. Then, we use the Office 365 APIs to access the user’s email and get messages that were sent to that email address. The emails are analyzed for positive/negative sentiment by the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text Analytics service. Then we display the average sentiment score of your emails to that email address, along with a chart of your sentiment over time.

You will need Visual Studio 2015 Community with Windows 10 SDK installed (install through advanced options learn more at Visual Studio Shorts on Channel9).

1. Obtain your Office 365 API from the App Registration portal
2. Add your ClientId and Return URL to UnconsciousBias/UnconsciousBias/Styles/Secrets.xaml
3. Obtain a Cognitive Services Text Analytics API Key from Cognitive Services Subsciptions
4. Add the key to AccountKey Property in UnconsciousBias/UnconsciousBias/Helpers/TextAnalyticsHelper.cs
5. Sign up for free Telerik Trail and download UWP UI Toolkit (see issue #3)
6. Build and Run

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Image: Injustice by Luis Prado from the Noun Project

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