Stock Market Predictions and Visualizations
The capstone project has finally come around, and for this blog post I'll be discussing my project as well as the steps I took to get there. I worked with stock market data this time around. Unlike most of the previous projects, I didn't set out to answer a super specific question based on the data as my goal. Instead, I wanted to build something that would make analyzing the dataset simple and intuitive with just a few clicks. I set out to make something extremely interactive, containing a huge amount of information. I also wanted to include two topics in finance that interest me, yield rates and economic sectors. Of course this is still a data science project, so there would also have to be an emphasis on machine learning and how it could be used to predict future prices. To begin, I'll briefly explain the data that I used for this project. To start with there were two datasets from the main US stock exchanges (NYSE and NASDAQ) which contained categorical data l