Mandi : Team 24

A box plot after going through historical data to see how many anomalies there are and how to rescale them
A graph to show how much data loss after data is trained
A graph to show the prediction of Bitcoin over time to show that our model is accurate

Inspiration

Our inspiration was the amalgamation of creating something new while learning something and also helping the Cryptocurrency Investment Fund with their technical analysis when conducting a stock pitch. Both of us are eager to break into FinTech so this was the perfect project for us.

What it does

Mandi predicts the stock trends of cryptocurrencies to analyse how the stock will perform in the future. The stock is trained on a year of historical data and tracks coins such as Bitcoin and Ethereum very well.

How we built it

We did the front end development using the Flask Framework as we wanted to learn a new web development framework. We did the backend in Python and Jupyter Notebooks using libraries such as sklearn, matplotlib and pandas.

Challenges we ran into

Every finance API we tried using had been either discontinued, it was paid for or gave the wrong information to do our technical analysis correctly. We tried initially with the Yahoo Finance API which was meant to be the best information of us, however, we then realised that the API had been discontinued 2 months prior. We then tried to use the Google Finance API which we after realised wasn't available anymore until recently. We then tried AlphaVantage and a mixture of 3 other APIs until finally we decided to manually create databases.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have a functioning AI that is able to learn from historical data and can accurately predict the trends of cryptocurrency. We have also learnt Flask which is a technology framework we had never had exposure to; Aditya has never done proper web development before this and he's learnt everything during the hackathon. It is Aditya's first Hackathon so we are very proud that we have managed to accomplish a lot.