Inspiration
After watching the explosion of stocks such as Gamestop and Dogecoin, thanks to r/wallstreetbets and Elon Musk, we wanted to build something that could collate this data and analyse patterns between what is being said and the impact on the price.
What it does
Current crypto prices along with news articles are pulled and presented to the user where they can see the current price in a graph and also related news stories. From here they can analyse where prices are moving and what they are affected by.
How we built it
We created a flask backend, which would request data from two different API's and then serve this to the React frontend which would present this data to the user and let them interact with it.
Challenges we ran into
Being unable to get approval for a twitter API key within the weekend limited our ability to serve as much data as we wanted. We also didn't manage to find an API to suit the types of data we needed, as we were unable to find reliable historical data which could be used to backdate and further prove our predictions and so this limited the functionality
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Being able to put together a working flask project which can interact with a react frontend is something neither of us have done before and so we are happy we managed to begin putting together a stack that could be used going forward.
What we learned
We learned that we need to plan our ideas more and be more realistic about what we can actually get done over a weekend.
What's next for Crypto-Predictions
We plan to research better data handling methods and possibly use a cloud database which we can store larger and more accessible files on. Also integrating the Twitter API so that we can actually finish what we set out to do.
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