Investment Provenance

Client: David Friedman <daf39@cam.ac.uk>

There are many online forums that offer investment advice, but not much of it is original. Your task is to create a tool for use by traders, that annotates investment tips with a plausible history of where they might have come from. Any correlation with historically objective information, such as share price movements, may be a helpful source of causal evidence. This project is likely to require some research into text processing algorithms and statistics, as well as an intuitive front end that helps users understand the "genetics" of specific investment trends and memes.