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Capstone Projects

Understanding the Impact of Unstructured Public Statement on Financial Forecasting

Program: Data Science Master's
Location: Not Specified (remote)
Student: Jack L. Johnson

My project explored revenue forecasting in the retail industryIt compared multiple different modeling techniques and unstructured data from earning calls and news stories for the past 10 years. It found that earnings calls were not a good source of information for forecasting but News stories had some value. Also, LASSO regressions were the best starting point for retail organizations looking to forecast revenue.