Analyze Bitcoin price time series and predict the price

You have been doing great solving all those projects in Commit.Live

Now let's try out a guided project which will enable you to scrape the web for extracting the price history of one of the most popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin. After extracting the data, we will analyze the time series for various factors and finally try to predict the price of Bitcoin for one week.

Doing this project will enable you to extract time series, analyze it and finally make predictions. You can apply same principles for a time series of stock prices.

What will you learn in the session ?

  • Web scapring using python
  • Python pandas
  • Functions
  • Plotting
  • Predicting using fbprophet library from Facebook

Pre-requisites

  • Working knowledge of Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib
  • Data indexing and slicing
  • Time series manipulations using pandas