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EPU index
http://www.applieddatamining.com/cms/?q=content/economic-policy-uncertainty-index
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EPU index

At the Applied Data Mining research group at the University of Antwerp, a classifier was developed to classify news articles as Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) related or not. The EPU index is the number of EPU related articles per day divided by the number of news journals that were crawled. In order to get a daily update of the EPU index, a number of scrapers were developed that can scrape Belgian (Flemish) news jounals every day. The resulting EPU index data is available to the broad public here.

The application consists of 3 parts: the web scrapers, a web application and a front end.

Installation

Check out the installation documentation.

Configuration

The application allows for some configurable parameters. Most notably: