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Use Bluemix to create imaginative solutions to complex unstructured data problems that may help us find alpha.

Winners will receive cool prizes as well as the opportunity to work with Alpha Modus to commercialize solutions and earn royalties from sales.

Suggested Problem Set (Choose One):

1) Harvest the web (scrape web) to create a real time economic forecasting indicator using a Bluemix API. Examples would be something that measures (or even predicts) macro indicators like inflation, gdp, unemployment and manufacturing.

2) Parse sentiment in financial news/social media text and/or video and image content on the web using Bluemix to create a sentiment based indicator that can measure and/or predict market direction.

3) Analyze huge volumes of sec.gov data to perform real time fundamental analysis on companies using public filings using Watson. Insight should be useful in identifying undervalued stocks or short sale candidates. An offshoot project may involve scanning regulatory filings in real time and cross referencing options markets to create an indicator that could flag potential insider trading activity.

4) Use Bluemix to create a polling tool that can be used to gather consensus opinion from alpha modus users about various topics like stock market direction, a stock's price or even a political election, a sporting event or new product release. Apply creativity in determining topics to poll. Then create an interactive real time visualization to display results of the poll.

Suggested Bluemix APIs to Use:
Alchemy API
Concept Expansion and Insight
Language Translation
Personality Insights
Trade Off Analysis
DataWorks
Insights for Twitter
Predictive Analytics
Stream Analytics
Data Cache
Session cache
GeoCoding

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