Facebook Stock Prediction Using Python & Machine Learning

In this article I will show you how to create your own stock prediction Python program using a machine learning algorithm called Support Vector Regression (SVR). The program will read in Facebook (FB) stock data and make a prediction of the open price based on the day. A Support Vector Regression (SVR) is a type of Support Vector Machine,and is a type of supervised learning algorithm that analyzes data for regression analysis. In 1996, this version of SVM for regression was proposed by Christopher J. C. Burges, Vladimir N. Vapnik, Harris Drucker, Alexander J. Smola and Linda Kaufman. The model produced by SVR depends only on a subset of the training data, because the cost function for building the model ignores any training data close to the model prediction.