Programming for Data Science: J's Finance Explorer

This project includes the following techniques: RESTful API, flask web framework, web scrapping, multiprocessing, data visualization, and time-series data analysis (machine learning).

How to Install Required Packages for Development

1. Download requirements.txt
2. pip install -r requirements.txt

Execution

1. Run Command Prompt and Change Current Working Directory to Final_Project_Py
2. ..> python app.py
3. Open Your Favorite Browser -Chrome, Edge, and Firefox- and Type http://127.0.0.1:8050/ in the Address Bar

Change Notes

• 4/15/2018 added finance.py(implemented web scraping)
• 4/20/2018 added app.py
• 5/03/2018 project submitted
• 5/13/2018 added normalize.css
• 5/15/2018 added requirements.txt
• 5/16/2018 removed duplicate code and implemented the technique of Sharing State Between Callbacks
• 5/17/2018 fixed some bugs
• 5/29/2018 added app_mlp.py (implemented multiprocessing with the intention of reducing execution time)
  ..> python app_mlp.py
• 6/24/2018 added a get function of flask RESTful api, updated requirements.txt

Reference

• Prophet
• Dash
• Normalize.css