mcohenmcohen / volatilityprediction

FoxScraper

foxnews.py is a python scraper for http://www.foxnews.com/us/economy/index.html. It runs a sellenium web driver that automates web scraping for more complex web pages. It was used to automate the click of a 'Show More' button that reloads more economic news

yahoonews.py is a python scraper that pulls all publicly released 2014 economic release data on their Calendar page

initialclaims.py is NOT complete. It is intended to scrape the DOL website and pull all Initial Claims and Continuing Claims economic releases using the selenium web driver.

alter.sql is used to drop the "NOT NULL" constraint on the postgres schema generated using Django

sentimentmodel.py is the linear regression model that will try to predict stock volatility using text