Monthly Archives: April 2010

Parameter Optimization in Rapidminer 5.0

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Tom

In several of my video tutorials I assign different parameters for my learning model “on the fly.”  Of course the question any astute reader/viewer should ask is, “why did you choose those parameters instead of another combination?” That’s a great … Continue reading →

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First Webinar Planned

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Tom

I have some great news!  If you’ve every wanted to ask me a direct question and/or get more information on my past video tutorials, this will be your chance! I plan on hosting my first Neural Market Trends webinar this … Continue reading →

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Partnering with Rapid-I

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Tom

My readers might be wondering why I have a beautiful Rapid-I logo so prominently featured at the top right side of my site. It’s probably because the Rapid-I team has my logo so prominently featured on their partner page. Yes, you read … Continue reading →

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Rapidminer Web Mining Extension Now Available!

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Tom

Just wanted to pass this along, in case you haven’t seen it already but  Rapidminer has released the Web Mining extension for version 5.0.  All you need to do to install it is to go to the pull down menu HELP > … Continue reading →

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Big Thanks

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Tom

As I wrote before, I’m trying to make Neural Market Trends a better reader experience but stripping out a lot of things and keeping things simple.  As such, I’ve had a shiny new and unique branding logo created for my … Continue reading →

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Fast Foruier Transformation & Market Cycles With Rapidminer

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Tom

For what its worth, there’s an interesting post on Fast Foruier Transformation and how to build a Rapidminer model to find  stock market cycles in the forums going on.  Members Ronmac and AWC have been kind enough to share the … Continue reading →

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Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #10 – Financial Time Series Modeling Part 2

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Tom

In this video we continue building a financial time series model, using S&P500 daily OHLCV data, and the windowing, sliding validation, and forecasting performance operator.  We test the model with some out of sample S&P500 data. [flashvideo file=wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Rapidminer5-vid10.mp4 /] This … Continue reading →

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Official Announcement: The Forums Are Now Open

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Tom

After a month or so of quietly dancing around the URL and making hints on this blog, I’m officially announcing the opening of my forums! I created these forum to serve as knowledge base (an idea lab) for financial experiments using Rapidminer, … Continue reading →

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March 2010 Income Report

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Tom

March was my biggest month for web traffic ever!  This probably has nothing to do with my sense of wit or writing style, but rather due to my Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorials and a faster template.  The change in my … Continue reading →

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