Monthly Archives: February 2010

Calling All Direct Mail Marketers

One of the video tutorials I'm working on is how to build and use a direct mail marketing model using a Decision Tree learner.  Rapidminer can be used for small, medium, and larger marketers as a data discovery tool that … Continue reading

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Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #3 – Building a Gold Trend Classification Model Part 2

In this video I discuss how to use a cross and simple validation operator to split your training data into two sets: training and validation data sets.  I also highlight the new intuitive “quick fix” error solution suggestions in Rapidminer … Continue reading

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LinkedIn Recommendation Request

My readers may or may not know but I maintain a professional profile on LinkedIn (you can find me at Thomas Ott). I really like LinkedIn and I’m always looking to network with good professionals in the engineering, data mining/modeling, and … Continue reading

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Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #2 – Building a Gold Trend Classification Model Part 1

Looks like I'm on a roll!  Please see my Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #2. In this video we begin the process of recreating my original written NMT YALE/Rapidminer tutorials into version 5.0 and into a video.  This video shows how to … Continue reading

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Neural Market Trend’s Social Media Outlets

I've been updating my social media links for a new and improved roll out of Neural Market Trends over the next few months.  My first job was to create a Youtube channel for my new Rapidminer videos, which I anticipate to … Continue reading

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Python Examples By Max

Long time linker (and reader hopefully) Max Dama maintains a great blog on automated trading and provides lots of great examples on how to do this.  I recently discovered that he has quite a few Python programming examples as well.  I'll have to … Continue reading

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SLV Tricked Us!

$SLV seems to have tricked us after bouncing and closing above the 50 WMA last week.  That's good news and it appears SLV will be gaining steam this week as it rides up trend channel.  If $SLV closes above the … Continue reading

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Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #1 – Introduction To Rapidminer

After a very long hiatus I present to my readers my first Rapidminer 5.0 video tutorial.  Its just a quick 10 min introduction to the GUI and data import functions of Rapidminer 5.0.  You’re gonna like the way it looks! … Continue reading

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Another Genetic Algorithm Addin For Excel

I downloaded and started to fool around with another genetic algorithm addin for Excel.  This one is called xlbit and is created by Xlpert.  What I like about it is that it has a better interface than Gentik Solver, but its … Continue reading

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The Euro Is About To…

Blow chunks, suck donkey dick, or  whatever metaphor you want to use if it breaks through and closes below $1.35.  Could it be temporary? I don't know but the daily chart (not shown in this post) already shows the 50 … Continue reading

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Rapidminer 5.0 Released

In case you didn't know, Rapidminer 5.0 has been released and there have been some MAJOR changes and improvements to it.  It looks a lot easier and appears to be even more powerful.  I just downloaded it and plan on … Continue reading

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Would You Buy DNDN?

$DNDN is routinely making all time highs and the question I pose this morning is, would you buy it now?  A lot of people are scared to buy all time highs. They think that since its at an all time high, … Continue reading

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