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Investigate Adding social semantics

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#8 opened on Mar 27, 2016

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I have not incorporated social semantics in this yet, but I'm sure there's some signal there. I'd bet reddit, bitcointalk, and twitter would be good places to start

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Tech stack
python
Domain
backenddata
Issue type
research
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
4
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over 1 week
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stale
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unclear
Prerequisites
Python programmingREST API usageSocial media API knowledge
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
15
Research direction
First, explore existing social media sentiment analysis libraries in Python such as tweepy for Twitter and praw for Reddit. Then, look into the current trading logic in the pytrader codebase to identify integration points. Finally, propose an architecture for incorporating social signals.
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