SSIX
Social Sentiment analysis financial IndeXes
Goal
Collect web and social network data in order to predict the outcome of political events or price and trends of financial assets.
Use cases
1
Predict the outcome of 2016 Brexit referendum
2
Predict the outcome of 2018 German general election
3
Analyse and forecast price of shares within S&P 500
Timeframe and status
2015 - 2018 (completed)
Topic
Social utility: Big data and Open Data Innovation and take-up
Project website
Datrix Roles and Contributions
- Developed a Big Data pipeline for collecting data from multiple sources (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Google news, vertical blogs, …)
- Normalised and stored data in standardised format
- Monitoring and data visualization tools
