INQ120D
Living an Examined Life

Activity 5

Machine Learning with Neural Networks

  1. The file SP500.csv contains data about weekly price changes in the S&P 500 stock index for the last 5 years. Download the file and open it in Excel.

  2. The web site Google Trends allows you visualize and download data related to Google searches. Go the the web site and download a CSV file containing data for the last 5 years that you think might be useful for predicting stock prices. Paste the data into the SP500.csv and repeat a few more times.

  3. The web site ConvNetJS Automatic Prediction Demo will automatically find a Neural Network that will classify data you add in CSV format. Remove the date column from the SP500.csv file and save the file. Open it in a text editor like Notepad and copy all of the text so that you can paste it into the ‘Your Data’ text box on the ConvNetJS web site. Press the ‘Import Data’ button. Who can get the best test set accuracy?