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This is a now-defunct website I’ve made to track predictions made for NHL games, by experts on the internet. The front-end is built with Angular, which uses a PHP handler to access the MySQL database, which gets populated with a library of Python scrapers.
2020LinkThere's a subreddit where people ask for high-risk, high-yield, short-term loans, and various lenders fulfill these loans. My friend and I tried to make money doing this, by underwriting users based on their borrowing and user history. We scraped a ton of data from the site, modeled on this, and set up a service to notify us of good risk to lend to.
2016LinkI had a friend in grad school who used to look for collectibles on eBay to buy and resell on Amazon at a higher price. Since fewer people shopped on eBay, sometimes there we price differences. Inspired by this, I got a list of movie UPCs and wrote a script that searched these on both sites, and notified me of descrepancies. For a while I made some money, but this was lost to a couple of purchases that weren't as advertised. I abandonned the pursuit.
2012LinkEarly-in-my-career attempts to model march madness games.
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