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Build a Simple Portfolio Analyzer in Python with ffn

Problem

If you have ever wanted a simple way to analyze your investment portfolio as a side project, you know how tedious it is to piece together multiple Python libraries.

Solution

ffn consolidates the entire portfolio analysis workflow into one package with a Pandas-like API.

Core features:

• Fetch stock prices directly from Yahoo Finance
• Calculate returns and risk metrics automatically
• Find the best allocation across your assets
• Plot performance comparisons and correlations

Analyze GitHub Repositories with LangChain Document Loaders

Problem

Are you tired of manually searching through hundreds of GitHub issues with keyword search to find what you need?

Solution

With LangChain’s GitHubIssuesLoader, you can load repository issues into a vector store and query them with natural language instead of exact keywords.

You can ask questions like “What feature requests are related to video?” and get instant, relevant answers from your issue history.

☕️ Weekly Finds

PlotNeuralNet [Data Viz] – LaTeX code for drawing publication-quality neural network diagrams for reports and presentations

yellowbrick [ML] – Visual analysis and diagnostic tools for machine learning with scikit-learn integration

TPOT [MLOps] – Python Automated Machine Learning tool that optimizes ML pipelines using genetic programming

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