Modern Day Alchemy: Using Python to Analyze the Stock Market
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Demonstrates using Python to scrape a website listing “hot stocks,” query Google Finance for each stock’s historical prices, store the results in an SQLite database, and use pandas to analyze price movements to test whether the list identifies genuinely hot stocks.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 2:48Jim Cramer
- 4:06Nassim Taleb
- 5:07Examining the DOM
- 10:44Beautiful Soup
- 16:16Finding Data Source
- 17:5010 Minute Break
- 27:05Modern Day Alchemy
- 27:17Web Scraping
- 30:53Databases - Database . Creating the Database
- 31:23Databases - Tables
- 31:46Databases - Data Types
- 33:59Data Analysis • Pandas, Numpy and MatPlotLib
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