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Extract Stock Sentiment from News Headlines

Scrape news headlines for FB and TSLA then apply sentiment analysis to generate investment insight.

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Project Description

It used to take days for financial news to spread via radio, newspapers, and word of mouth. Now, in the age of the internet, it takes seconds. Did you know news articles are automatically being generated from figures and earnings call streams? In this project, you will generate investing insight by applying sentiment analysis on financial news headlines from Finviz. Using this natural language processing technique, you will understand the emotion behind the headlines and predict whether the market feels good or bad about a stock.

The datasets used in this project are raw HTML files for the Facebook (FB) and Tesla (TSLA) stocks from FINVIZ.com, a popular website dedicated to stock information and news.

Project Tasks

  1. 1
    Searching for gold inside HTML files
  2. 2
    What is inside those files anyway?
  3. 3
    Extra, extra! Extract the news headlines
  4. 4
    Make NLTK think like a financial journalist
  5. 5
    BREAKING NEWS: NLTK Crushes Sentiment Estimates
  6. 6
    Plot all the sentiment in subplots
  7. 7
    Weekends and duplicates
  8. 8
    Sentiment on one single trading day and stock
  9. 9
    Visualize the single day

Technologies

Python Python

Topics

Data ManipulationData VisualizationProbability & StatisticsImporting & Cleaning Data
Juan González-Vallinas HeadshotJuan González-Vallinas

Director Data Science at multilayer.io

I am a scientist in the private sector. I do not like the data scientist title much though. What kind of scientist does not use data? I worked in genomics, video games and now fintech.
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