APIs, Social Media Data, and their Real World Applications
Udemy
Course Summary
Learn how to access widely available social media data using APIs and apply it to the stock market!
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Course Description
APIs are available on most modern websites, and provide an easy way to integrate the websites functionalities into your code. The API that will be focused on is the Twitter API, which which will be used to mine tweets about the event.
Social media, especially twitter, is becoming a hot topic among many investors, as its trends can often predict behavior of the stock market. This course will focus on how Twitter data can be live streamed, and will feature a worked example of the Yahoo hack, that was revealed on December 14th, 2016.