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Past work, present interests, future ideas
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Gettin' Funky with Stocks
Exploring the Predictive Power of Technical Analysis with Deep Learning Coming Soon! In the meantime, go here
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Exploring Financial News Trends with Natural Language Processing
Overview My past two projects touched on the importance of information within finance. In the first, I referenced Eugene Fama and his Efficient Market Hypothesis, which posits that asset prices reflect all available information. In the last, I put forth the notion that a company’s stock price was merely the...
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Classifying Earnings Surprise with S&P 500 Metrics
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Source: Zacks Investments Overview The price of a company’s stock is the expected value of its future earnings. This fundamental fact is what makes the field of earnings estimates so important in finance. Throughout each quarter, countless analysts use a myriad of financial metrics and calculations to...
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Investigating the Federal Reserve's Influence on the S&P 500
Overview Being in Chicago, I found it fitting to investigate two of its most popular scholarly figures. The works of Eugene Fama and Milton Friedman had a profound impact on my schooling and economic proclivities. For this project, I wanted to devise a research question that would incorporate theories from...
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Identifying New York's Busiest MTA Stations
Overview At the beginning of the summer, WomenTechWomenYes (WTWY) has a gala in New York City. In order to generate awareness of their new and inclusive organization and to attract passionate individuals to their gala, WTWY sends out street teams to collect email addresses. These teams will be placed at...