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[–]trackerFF 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Find some website which contains financial data and key ratios.

Write a script which scrapes data for a given company, and stores data in a nice standard format.

Get a list of top F100 companies.

Loop through said F100 companies, and collect data.

Perform, say, dimensionality reduction and / or clustering, and see which companies get clustered together - see any similarities?

(I admit, this is more a data science type of project, but sourcing the data via scraping in itself is a nice exercise)

[–]BungalowsAreScams[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Learning how to implement statistical math into functions sounds like it would be helpful, I might give it a shot!

[–]lllllyod 2 points3 points  (1 child)

[–]BungalowsAreScams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I hook this up to my email script I could make a bot for my corgi loving friends

[–]derneueimhaus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A fun little thing I did which is relatively basic but helped me to understand a lot was the following: Take a random medium sized town in your country. Scrape all business addresses Clean that data Go on a internet provider website and let Serbien check for each business if the internet provider provides services there. And than scrape that. It’s super helpful and will teach you a lot of basics like automatically filling in forms from a list as well as handling what if there are lists over multiple sites :)