In this blog we will demonstrate how we can predict if a stock is going up or down based on the news headlines. The solution consists of the following components: Spark MLLib (Machine Learning) My News-Digest (which I have described in my last blogs) Investor (we determine the stock prices Read more…
After we have seen that processing large amounts of data with Spark is efficient, we will demonstrate how we can use a Spark DataFrame to generate Charts with Vegas-Spark! We display the number of all new York Times Articles and the Business Guardian Articles over time.
I decided to build a repository of news headlines: I loaded all ‘New York Times’ headlines since the year 2000 and all Business related News from the ‘Guardian’ into a Sorl Search engine. More details can be found in my prior blog. It has never been the intention to process Read more…
Recently I have spent some time to investigate the options to access the history of news articles via an API. I was mainly interested in APIs which can be accessed free of charge. Here is the list of the most useful providers: Guardian – Easy API – Acceptable Rate Limits Read more…