Tech Analysts, S&T Analysts (optionally)
Following the course, participants will be able to: • Query social media and search engine APIs (Twitter, Google) to return relevant content • Perform essential NLP (Natural language Processing) operations like creating corpora, vectorisation, computing word frequency scores • Implement a simplified, dictionary based sentiment analyser and evaluate its strengths and limitations • Identify third party solutions that implement the above functionality
• Web scraping: what is it? • What ethical, regulatory and operational issues arise in scraping content from the web? o GDPR and similar legislation o Consent o Authentication o Storing scraped data o Automating the process • Query the Google search API to return a list of themed news items • Introduction to NLP o What it can and can’t do o Key concepts: vectorisation, n-grams, word frequency counts • Installing and importing the standard python NLP library, word2vec. Run the above functions on the dataset we have loaded from Google • Implement an off-the-shelf dictionary-based sentiment analyser and evaluate its strengths and limitations • Map the timestamped sentiment drivers to a price series • Run a regression model to test the hypothesis and determine statistical validity (correlation and p-score)
We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.
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