Visual Analytics for Stock Price and Financial News

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Final Year Thesis Oral Defense

Title: "Visual Analytics for Stock Price and Financial News"

by

CHEN Kejia

Abstract:

Nowadays, every aspect of human life is filled with huge volumes of data, 
especially in the financial market. This thesis focuses on visualization 
of stock price data and financial news to help people understand the trend 
in the market. Stock price data and financial news are crawled from 
Financial website. Sentiment information and hot topics in the news is 
analysed. And various visualization techniques are applied to illustrate 
the pattern and trend in the data.

Date                 : 22 April 2017 (Sat)

Time                 : 16:00 - 16:40

Venue                : 2404 (via lift 17/18)

Advisor              : Prof. Huamin QU

2nd Reader           : Dr. Xiaojuan MA