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May 6, 2014
International Day Against DRM 2014
Packt Publishing asked me to announce the following: “Celebrate #DayAgainstDRM with Packt Publishing. Buy any eBook and Video for just $10 each. To know more, visit bit.ly/1q6bpha” Packt celebrates International Day Against DRM, May 6th 2014 Packt Publishing … Continue reading →
April 25, 2014
Review of Social Media Mining with R
I decided to read “Social Media Mining with R”, because I am interested in the subject. Also the book is written by two authors with impressive careers in this field. It is unusual for a book this short (120+ pages) … Continue reading →
April 19, 2014
Flipping coins with logistic regression
This entry is part 23 of 23 in the series Numpy StrategiesUnder the Random Walk theory financial assets perform random walks, not unlike Malocchio in his usual drunken state, but probably without the loud cursing and swearing. The theory basically … Continue reading →
March 30, 2014
Hunting Black Swans
This entry is part 22 of 22 in the series Numpy StrategiesOnce upon a time in a cold, but prosperous kingdom people only knew about the existence of white swans. Swans were white by definition there was no doubt about … Continue reading →
March 27, 2014
Evaluating Yahoo Finance News with FeedParser and Alchemy
Everybody is on the Web today, so there is a lot of interest in sentiment analysis. I made a short script that retrieves financial news from a Yahoo Finance RSS feed for a given symbol. The RSS is parsed with … Continue reading →
March 23, 2014
Poor Man’s Monte Carlo
This entry is part 21 of 21 in the series Numpy StrategiesGambling is fun. It’s more fun than doing actual work, since you don’t have to know what you are actually doing. But you know if you throw a dice … Continue reading →
March 22, 2014
Packt 2K Campaign
Packt Publishing is launching an exciting campaign to coincide with the release of its 2000th title. During this offer Packt is giving all a chance to dive into their comprehensive catalog and ‘Buy One-Get One Free!!!’ across their entire range … Continue reading →
March 17, 2014
Estimating with mean and standard deviation
This entry is part 20 of 20 in the series Numpy StrategiesGravity waves. Aren’t they something! Today another distasteful finance post in which I try finding support and resistance. Actually I will just focus on resistance, since the procedure for … Continue reading →
March 8, 2014
Review of Learning Android Intents
Learning Android Intents is a great beginner’s guide about Android Intents. In 9 chapters every aspect of Android Intents is covered – from the Android versions history, IDE’s to more advanced features: Chapter 1: Understanding Android Chapter 2: Introduction to … Continue reading →
March 2, 2014
Predicting with ElasticNetCV
This entry is part 19 of 19 in the series Numpy StrategiesElasticNetCV from scikit-learn combines the Ridge and Lasso algorithms suitable for generalized linear models, such as the one I will be discussing today. CV stands for cross validation, which … Continue reading →
