In Milestone 1, our group did extensive research on the tools we plan to use for our project. We found several webscraping tool options such as SaaS Scrapers, Desktop Scraper, No-Code Browser Scapers, and Frameworks/Libraries. After listing the Pros and Cons for each, which are detailed out in our presentation, we decided to proceed with the Beautiful Soup Library (in Python). We also decided to use Yahoo Finance for our financial headline resource, since this website provided the most up-to-date and reliable financial headlines. Our implementation is to scrape headlines from Yahoo Finance using Beautiful Soup , store our data in Mongo DB Atlas, then display our analysis. In addition to the project, we also started working on our project website on Google Sites.
Details our project plan for Milestone 1