WallStreetBets DataAnalysis project

This repository is the DataAnalysis project by Lukas (3217694), Benno (3254806) and Marco (3195666)

The goal of this project is to extract mentions of stocksymbols from reddits wallstreetbets, and then search for correlations in mention spikes and stock price shifts.

Documentation

The required documentation can be found in the asignment_doc folder

Setup

Python

Setup a Python 3.9 virtualenv
- py -m venv env
Activate virtualenv
- .\env\Scripts\activate
Install dependencies
- pip install -r requirements.txt

Reddit

rename or copy ./res/reddit_config.json.example to ./res/reddit_config.json
Open ./res/reddit_config.json and fill all fields with your reddit API credentials

Run

Data Extraction

py RunRedditExtraction.py