Code-Along #6: Can social media data predict cryptocurrency prices?
Make API calls on Twitter and CoinGecko to obtain data and train a machine learning price movement classifier.
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Are you
proficient in Python?
interested in seeing how different datasets can be used together?
hoping to use ML in the finance industry?
Join UpLevel in our monthly Code-Along!
In this month’s code-along, UpLevel co-founder and instructor Jackie will teach you to use social media data and correlate it with cryptocurrency price movement, assessing if there is a relationship between the two. You will be obtaining data from Twitter and CoinGecko, then using machine learning to train a price movement classifier.
What You’ll Do
Acquire data from Twitter and CoinGecko via API
Cleaning and pre-processing tweets
Correlating data obtained from tweets with a select cryptocurrency’s price movement
Datanaut Perks
UpLevel Datanauts* will also get access to the following
AMA in the final 15 min
recording of both the code-along and the AMA
project notebook to accompany the code-along
Pay-as-You-Wish
A number of folks mentioned that they loved our code-alongs and would be interested in donating to show their appreciation. If you would like, you may donate any amount (we recommend $10) via the following methods:
[Local] via PayNow/PayLah to UEN 201921291D
[International] via PayPal to jackie@uplevel.work
If you are currently of limited means, rest assured that donation is not compulsory, and you may still attend the code-along for free.