diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/app/__init__.py b/examples/intermediate_example/app/__init__.py
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+from flask import Flask
+from flask_script import Manager
+#from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
+#from flask.ext.migrate import Migrate, MigrateCommand
+from .commands import REPL
+import os
+
+username,password = "eric_s","1234"
+app = Flask(__name__)
+#app.config["SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI"] = os.getenv("DATABASE_URL")
+#app.config["SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI"] = "postgresql://"+username+":"+password+"@localhost/backpage_ads"
+#db = SQLAlchemy(app)
+#migrate = Migrate(app,db)
+
+#manager = Manager(app)
+#manager.add_command('db', MigrateCommand)
+#manager.add_command("shell",REPL())
+
+from app import views #,models
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/app/commands.py b/examples/intermediate_example/app/commands.py
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+++ b/examples/intermediate_example/app/commands.py
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+from flask_script import Command
+import code
+
+class REPL(Command):
+    "runs the shell"
+
+    def run(self):
+        code.interact(local=locals())
+
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/app/models.py b/examples/intermediate_example/app/models.py
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+"""
+
+Here the models for our database is defined.
+
+I am using Postgres, Flask-SQLAlchemy for this application.
+
+For an introduction to Flask-SQLAlchemy check out: http://flask-sqlalchemy.pocoo.org/2.1/
+""" 
+from app import db
+
+class ImageToText(db.Model):
+    """
+    This model stores the lookup for an image to text from Keras Models defined in image_processing.py
+    parameters:
+    @file_name - the filename being processed
+    @labels - the set of labels associated with the filename
+    @state - the state or province the ad appeared in
+    @city - the city or town the ad appeared in
+    @location - the location parsed from the ad
+    @url - the url of the ad
+    @timestamp - the timestamp of when the ad was scraped
+    @phone_number - the phone number associated with the ad
+    @latitude - latitude parsed from the ad
+    @longitude - longitude parsed from the ad
+    @image_url - image_url used for image lookup
+    """
+
+    __tablename__ = 'image_to_text'
+    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
+    filename = db.Column(db.String)
+    labels = db.Column(db.String)
+    state = db.Column(db.String)
+    city = db.Column(db.String)
+    location = db.Column(db.String)
+    url = db.Column(db.String)
+    timestamp = db.Column(db.DateTime)
+    phone_number = db.Column(db.String)
+    latitude = db.Column(db.String)
+    longitude = db.Column(db.String)
+    image_url = db.Column(db.String)
+    throw_away = db.Column(db.String)
+    
+    def __init__(
+            self, image_url, filename, labels, state, city,
+            location, url, timestamp, phone_number,
+            latitude, longitude,throw_away
+    ):
+        self.image_url = image_url
+        self.filename = filename
+        self.labels = labels
+        self.state = state
+        self.city = city
+        self.location = location
+        self.url = url
+        self.timestamp = timestamp
+        self.phone_number = phone_number
+        self.latitude = latitude
+        self.longitude = longitude
+        self.throw_away = throw_away
+
+
+class AreaCodeLookup(db.Model):
+    """
+    This model provides a look up for phone number area codes and aids in converting them to latitude, longitude.
+    Specifically this mapping provides:
+    Area code and it's corresponding township.
+    From there geopy provides the lookup to latitude, longitude
+    
+    Because location may not be unique - there could be multiple towns with the same name, 
+    there is not a 100% guarantee all lookups will be accurate.
+    
+    Source: https://www.allareacodes.com/
+    parameters:
+    @area_code - the area code from a phone number
+    @city - a string city
+    @state - a string state
+    @latitude - latitude for the area code
+    @longitude - longitude for the area code
+    """
+    __tablename__ = "areacode_lookup"
+    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
+    area_code = db.Column(db.String)
+    city = db.Column(db.String)
+    state = db.Column(db.String)
+    latitude = db.Column(db.String)
+    longitude = db.Column(db.String)
+    
+    def __init__(self, area_code, city, state, latitude, longitude):
+        self.area_code = area_code
+        self.city = city
+        self.state = state
+        self.latitude = latitude
+        self.longitude = longitude
+
+
+class BackpageAdInfo(db.Model):
+    """
+    This model gives us a set of specific information from each add scraped from backpage.
+    
+    parameters:
+    @ad_title - used primarily to uniquely identify backpage ads - since titles are unique
+    @phone_number - the phone number used in the ad, can be empty.  This number is stored as a string
+    since it should be thought of as immutable.
+    @city - the city the add is from
+    @state - the state the add is from
+    @location - the location mentioned in the advertisement 
+    @latitude - latitude derived from the location mentioned in the advertisement
+    @longitude - longitude derived from the location mentioned in the advertisement
+    @ad_body - the long form text in the ad
+    @photos - a filepath link to the set of pictures downloaded for the ad
+    @post_id - an id for each backpage post from backpage
+    @timestamp - when the ad was scraped
+    @url - the url of the scraped ad
+    """
+    __tablename__ = 'ad_info'
+    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
+    ad_title = db.Column(db.String)
+    phone_number = db.Column(db.String)
+    location = db.Column(db.String)
+    latitude = db.Column(db.String)
+    longitude = db.Column(db.String)
+    ad_body = db.Column(db.String)
+    photos = db.Column(db.String)
+    post_id = db.Column(db.String)
+    timestamp = db.Column(db.DateTime)
+    city = db.Column(db.String)
+    state = db.Column(db.String)
+    url = db.Column(db.String)
+    
+    def __init__(self,url, ad_title, phone_number, ad_body, location, latitude, longitude, photos, post_id,timestamp, city, state):
+        self.url = url
+        self.ad_title = ad_title
+        self.phone_number = phone_number
+        self.location = location
+        self.latitude = latitude
+        self.longitude = longitude
+        self.ad_body = ad_body
+        self.photos = photos
+        self.post_id = post_id
+        self.timestamp = timestamp
+        self.city = city
+        self.state = state
+        
+        
+class Backpage(db.Model):
+    """
+    This model gives us high level information about backpage, the website.
+    It is used to determine some metrics found in lectures/scraping_the_web.md
+    
+    parameters:
+    @timestamp - this is the time at which the content was scraped, it is assumed scrapers will run all the time,
+    therefore the scrape time should be accurate to within an hour of scraping, this is used in some of the metrics
+    for analysis.
+    @frequency - this is the number of ads scraped at @timestamp and is used in many of the metrics for the scraper.
+    """
+    __tablename__ = 'backpage'
+    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
+    timestamp = db.Column(db.DateTime)
+    frequency = db.Column(db.Integer)
+    
+    def __init__(self,timestamp,frequency):
+        self.timestamp = timestamp
+        self.frequency = frequency
+        
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/app/static/js/main-2.js b/examples/intermediate_example/app/static/js/main-2.js
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+(() => {
+'use strict';
+
+function buildGraph(response) {
+  const cop = response.cop;
+  const cops = response.cops;
+  const timestamp = response.timestamp;
+
+
+  var chart = c3.generate({
+      data: {
+          x: 'x',
+          columns: [
+              timestamp,
+              cop,
+              cops
+          ]
+      },
+      axis: {
+          x: {
+              type: 'timeseries',
+              tick: {
+                  format: '%Y-%m-%d'
+              }
+          }
+      }
+  });
+}
+
+function getArticles() {
+  //This returns JSON
+  const resp = axios.get('http://localhost:5000/api')
+    .then(function (response) {
+      console.log(response);
+    })
+    .catch(function (error) {
+      console.log(error);
+    });
+
+  // parse
+  // return parsed response
+}
+
+
+buildGraph(getArticles());
+
+})();
+
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/app/static/js/main.js b/examples/intermediate_example/app/static/js/main.js
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+
+(() => {
+
+function buildGraph() {
+'use strict';
+
+  var chart = c3.generate({
+      data: {
+          x: 'x',
+  //        xFormat: '%Y%m%d', // 'xFormat' can be used as custom format of 'x'
+          columns: [
+              ['x', '2013-01-01', '2013-01-02', '2013-01-03', '2013-01-04', '2013-01-05', '2013-01-06'],
+  //            ['x', '20130101', '20130102', '20130103', '20130104', '20130105', '20130106'],
+              ['data1', 30, 200, 100, 400, 150, 250],
+              ['data2', 130, 340, 200, 500, 250, 350]
+          ]
+      },
+      axis: {
+          x: {
+              type: 'timeseries',
+              tick: {
+                  format: '%Y-%m-%d'
+              }
+          }
+      }
+  });
+}
+
+function getArticles() {
+  const resp = axios.get('')
+    .then(function (response) {
+      console.log(response);
+    })
+    .catch(function (error) {
+      console.log(error);
+    });
+
+  // parse
+  // return parsed response
+}
+
+
+buildGraph(getArticles());
+
+})();
+
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/app/templates/index.html b/examples/intermediate_example/app/templates/index.html
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+++ b/examples/intermediate_example/app/templates/index.html
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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/c3/0.4.11/c3.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
+    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.17/d3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
+    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/c3/0.4.11/c3.min.js"></script>
+    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/axios/0.17.1/axios.min.js"></script>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <div id="chart"></div>
+
+    <!--<script src="./main.js"></script>-->
+    <script src="{{url_for('static',filename='js/main.js') }}"></script>
+  </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/app/views.py b/examples/intermediate_example/app/views.py
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+++ b/examples/intermediate_example/app/views.py
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+from app import app
+#from app import db
+from flask import render_template, request, jsonify
+import json
+import requests
+import pandas as pd
+from datetime import datetime
+
+def xor(v1, v2):
+    if v1 and v2:
+        return False
+    if v1 and not(v2):
+        return True
+    if not(v1) and v2:
+        return True
+    if not(v1) and not(v2):
+        return False
+
+def found(val):
+    if val == -1:
+        return False
+    else:
+        return True
+
+def fetch_news():
+    API_KEY = 'e750e0189ede4b6b8b1a766b8523b29a'
+
+    resp = requests.get('https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=techcrunch&apiKey=' + API_KEY)
+    resp2 = requests.get('https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=reuters&apiKey=' + API_KEY)
+    resp3 = requests.get('https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=newsweek&apiKey=' + API_KEY)
+    resp4 = requests.get('https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=new-york-times&apiKey=' + API_KEY)
+    resp5 = requests.get('https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=the-wall-street-journal&apiKey=' + API_KEY)
+    resp6 = requests.get('https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=the-washington-post&apiKey=' + API_KEY)
+
+    list_of_words =['cop', 'cops', 'crime', 'law enforcement', 'homocide', 'crime rate', 'white collar crime', 'blue collar crime']
+
+    empty_set = set()
+    mention_count = {}.fromkeys(list_of_words, 0)
+    link_mentions = {}.fromkeys(list_of_words, empty_set)
+
+    entries = resp.json()
+    entries.update(resp2.json())
+    entries.update(resp3.json())
+    entries.update(resp4.json())
+    entries.update(resp5.json())
+    entries.update(resp6.json())
+
+    for article in entries['articles']:
+        for word in list_of_words:
+            title_found = found(article['title'].find(word))
+            description_found = found(article['description'].find(word))
+            if xor(title_found, description_found):
+                mention_count[word] += 1
+                link_mentions[word].add(article['url'])
+
+    link_mentions = {key:list(link_mentions[key]) for key in link_mentions}
+    mention_count["timestamp"] = str(datetime.now())
+    link_mentions["timestamp"] = str(datetime.now())
+    return mention_count, link_mentions
+
+    
+@app.route("/api", methods=["GET", "POST"])
+def api():
+    mention_count, link_mentions = fetch_news()
+    return jsonify(mention_count)
+    
+
+@app.route("/", methods=["GET", "POST"])
+def index():
+    return render_template("index.html")
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/manage.py b/examples/intermediate_example/manage.py
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+++ b/examples/intermediate_example/manage.py
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+from app import manager
+
+manager.run()
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/requirements.txt b/examples/intermediate_example/requirements.txt
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+++ b/examples/intermediate_example/requirements.txt
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+boto
+keras
+elasticsearch
+zipcode
+gunicorn
+geopy
+usaddress
+statsmodels
+scipy
+Flask
+Flask-Cors
+Flask-Migrate
+Flask-Script
+Flask-SQLAlchemy
+Jinja2
+lxml
+matplotlib
+nose
+num2words
+pandas
+patsy
+pbr
+plotly
+psycopg2
+requests
+SQLAlchemy
+Werkzeug
+twilio
+geopandas
+shapely
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/run_server.py b/examples/intermediate_example/run_server.py
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+++ b/examples/intermediate_example/run_server.py
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+from app import app
+
+app.run(debug=True)
diff --git a/examples/intermediate_example/start_db.sh b/examples/intermediate_example/start_db.sh
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+++ b/examples/intermediate_example/start_db.sh
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+pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start