On that note, I'm in SF for the semester and would love to hack on something if you're looking to pair program. I like Javascript, Ruby, and front-end stuff. Email's in the profile...
1)It finds and prepares database of tweets about public companies by searching tweets containing Company's name or ticker symbol.
2)Tags them as positive, negative or neutral comment.
3)Prepare a report depicting market sentiments about a particular stock over a period of time.
4)Compare it with how stock is actually doing in that time period and after that.
It is an experimental project to check if we can predict how the stock will fare by measuring the market sentiments toward it and if it is reliable or not.
2)Then, I will use Google Prediction API.
3)Based on this data we can get a graph depicting the rise and fall of overall sentiment for a particular stock over a period of time.
Using this - http://developers.face.com/
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