salemohamedo/trump-tweets-markets

An interactive React.js visualization of Donald Trump's Tweets and various stock market indexes

Research Intent

We aimed to answer a series of questions related to Trump’s impact on market indexes. Firstly, is there a noticeable trend regarding how market prices have changed since Trump took office, and if so, how have they changed? Also, can variations in prices be clearly attributed to the subject/nature of Trump’s tweets? Finally, do markets respond differently to Trump’s tweets, and if so, which ones seem to be the most receptive?

How our Visualization Works

• Search for tweets to find the associated prices for a given index on the days the tweets were made. This feature is important for gauging what ‘kind’ of Trump tweets, based on vocabulary, affects the market. I.e a search for ‘taxes’ can allow one to answer the question, ‘Do Trump’s tax related tweets have a noticeable impact on certain indexes?’

• Select an index to allow one to see what types of indexes are impacted (if impacted) by certain kinds of tweets, and to estimate which indexes are generally more volatile and responsive to Trump’s tweets.

• Zoom/brush over the market graph. This makes it easier to mouseover a given day in the market and, therefore, to find the tweets from that day and get a better understanding of the tweets made and changes in market prices in a smaller interval of time.

• Hover over bars to find corresponding tweets from that day as well as the market prices for that day. Our facilitation for ‘details on demand’ allows one to easily select an extreme and see what Trump tweeted on that day.

Setup

npm install
npm run start
open browser to localhost:3003