Monthly Archives: March 2010

20 Million Marks

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When I was I kid I used to collect stamps and baseball cards, just like nearly every other American kid does. Then, about 3 years ago I started collecting US coin sets, mostly proofs from the US mint for my kids (they make great presents BTW).

As a lover of history and economics, coin/money collecting (numismatics) just made sense to me and now I go to the monthly coin show in my area and spend a few hours a week on Ebay searching for for interesting coins and paper money for my collection.  Just this week I picked up something that reminds me of runaway inflation from the past.  Its a 1923 – 20 Million Marks bank note from the Weimar Republic of Germany.   Inflation was so rampant during the Wiemar Republic that people used these notes as wall paper.  

Since I want to own a piece of history, I bought it for $1.75 from Ebay.  Goes to show you, one man's wall paper is another man's treasure.

Neural Market Trends Upgrades & Changes

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In case you hadn't noticed, I started to tinker around with the theme of Neural Market Trends by changing it to something more simpler and removing Google Ads (as a test).  I'm doing this to help speed up my blog because a recent SEO checkup told me it was too slow, and possibly scaring off new readers.

Overall I want to make my existing and new reader experience more friendly so things may display weird or links might be temporarily broken as these changes roll out over the next few weeks.  Thanks for your patience!

A New Blytic!

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I wanted to give a shout out to my high school buddy, SoldAtTheTop, for the launch of the newest version of his Data Analysis website, Blytic.  I poke around there from time to time and he's made some great changes that benefits data modelers, tinkerers, and students of economics.  He has created a rich repository of economic data that can now be easily downloaded in an Excel spreadsheet, create dazzling charts that can mash up data and display it, easy embedding of your charts into websites, and a host of other things.

I highly recommend his site and urge you check it out!  Great job SoldAtTheTop (not his real name, duh)!

Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #4 – Genetic Algorithmic Data Preprocessing Part 1

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In this video I highlight the data generation capabilities for Rapidminer 5.0 if you want to tinker around, and how to use a Genetic Optimization data pre-processor within a nested nested experiment. Yes, you read that correctly, a nested nested experiment.

Video download link (HQ):Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #4

February 2010 Income Report

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I decided to tweak out this blog's web income in January and posted my first income report this year as a starting metric.  Below is February's income report, which is showing a pattern of growth, mostly due to my new Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorials.  All i'm doing now is collecting data to feed into a Rapidminer model later and using typical white hat SEO tricks right now.

Google Adsense:          $19.88 ( +78%)

Text Link Ads:                 $36.62 (+24.5%)

Adify:                                $0.00 (discontinued)

Affiliates:                         $0.00

Total:                              $56.50

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