1.Team members:

 a. Jacob Huss, NetID: jnhuss2 (team captain)

 b. Chaitanya Jujjavarapu, NetID: cnj3

 c. Edward Park, NetID: edwardp3

2. Mining Causal Topics in Text Data: Iterative Topic Modeling with Time Series Feedback: https://dl-acm-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/doi/epdf/10.1145/2505515.2505612

3. Python

4. Yes. We have access to all the data used in the first experiment described by the paper:

   a. We will scrape the New York Times data from this site: https://spiderbites.nytimes.com/2000/

   b. We will scrape the IEM data from this site: https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/pricehistory/pricehistory_SelectContract.cfm?market_ID=29

5. N/A

6. N/A