Work place: Technological Institute of the Philippines, Quezon City, 1109, Philippines
E-mail: anthonycalingo@me.com
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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Data Mining, Social Information Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms
Biography
Anthony R. Caliñgo was born in 1987 in Manila, Philippines. He graduated with Academic Excellence at Informatics International College with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Management (BSIM) in 2008. He is now completing his Master’s Degree in Information Technology (MIT) at the Technological Institute of the Philippines – Quezon City, under the guidance of Dr. Ariel M. Sison. His research interests include data mining and social media analysis.
He previously worked as an IT Instructor at Informatics International College from 2008-2014. Currently, he is the Assistant Administrator of Prince n’ Princess School and a Board Member of Prince n’ Princess Corp., Pasig City, Philippines.
By Anthony R. Calingo Ariel M. Sison Bartolome T. Tanguilig III
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2016.10.02, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2016
Stock market prediction has been an interesting research topic for many years. Finding an efficient and effective means of predicting the stock market found its way in different social networking platforms such as Twitter. Studies have shown that public moods and sentiments can affect one's opinion. This study explored the tweets of the Filipino public and its possible effects on the movement of the closing Index of the Philippine Stock Exchange. Sentiment Analysis was used in processing individual tweets and determining its polarity - either positive or negative. Tweets were given a positive and negative probability scores depending on the features that matched the trained classifier. Granger causality testing identified whether or not the past values of the Twitter time series were useful in predicting the future price of the PSE Index. Two prediction models were created based on the p-values and regression algorithms. The results suggested that the tweets collected using geo location and local news sources proved to be causative of the future values of the Philippine Stock Exchange closing Index.
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