IRM Capstone Projects

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Projects of 2023

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Stock Notes: Behavior from Social Media and its Impact on the Stock Market

This project will examine how social media behaviour affects stock market prices. We will strive to understand how social media influences people's behaviour and the correlation that it has with stock market performances. This project can help investors make better decisions on what they should invest in on the market. in this project, we gathered data from Twitter using Tweepy API.

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SwiftFlights: The creation of a travel website using an API

SwiftFlights is a website that allows the user to find flights and hotels when planning to travel within Canada. The website takes information submitted by the user and uses this information to gain flight and hotel information from an API.

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Veritas Research: Misinformation and Information Literacy in the Digital Age

In the digital age, information can be assessed in a variety of different ways, which makes it easier than ever to falsify information online. Our capstone project aims to educate users about what misinformation is and essential information literacy skills to help combat it.

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Needs Vs. Wants: Analyzing the Influence of Social Media on Consumer Behaviour

Social media and content creators play an ever-increasing part in everyone's daily lives, yet most users do not realize the fact that they themselves and their data is the product that is being sold to marketers and advertising companies. Our goal is to understand how the use of social media platforms affects the way consumers make purchasing decisions and how companies can use it to influence consumer behaviour.

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Social-elect: How Social Media Influences Voting Behaviour

Our goal was to demonstrate that social media may have an impact on different individuals' votes. The rise of social media has radically changed how many individuals consume and interpret politics. In our study, we explored at the implications of using various social media platforms to learn about politics and prepare for voting in elections. We look at the relationship between social media and the impact it has on voters' judgments.

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