Inspiration

We wanted people to be able to make informed decisions on financial investments, so we created Ascertain to analyze investment risks for them.

What it does

The app helps users make and manage investments with risk analysis.

How we built it

We used Python and FastAPI for the backend and PyTorch for the ML. The front end was made with React, Next.JS, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Challenges we ran into

It was difficult to gain a good understanding of the domain of the Goldman Sachs challenge prompt, as none of us were very knowledgeable on finance and economics. Another challenge we faced was the fact that none of us were familiar with backend work.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One of the things that we are proud of is the price density function that we implemented for predicting expected stock returns.

What we learned

We gained a better understanding of the field of investments.

What's next for Ascertain

We would like to add more investment options, live updates (with sentiment analysis), and fine-tooth ML models to Ascertain in the future.

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