Over the past few months, I've been trying to recreate some of the alternative data tools commonly used by hedge funds and other professional investors to infor

Over the past few months, I've been trying to recreate some of the alternative data tools commonly used by hedge funds and other professional investors to inform their trading decisions. The goal of this project is to bridge the information gap between retail investors and Wall Street, by building a free, easy-to-use alternative data platform. For this dashboard, I have been aggregating daily Twitter follower counts for members of the Russell 3000. I wrote a script to match each company to a Twitter handle (using Selenium to do Google searches for "company name twitter"), and then used the Twitter API to update the follower counts every day.