Monthly Archives: September 2010

Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #11 – Pattern Recognition & Landmarking Plugin

I’m back to making new videos again, at least for a little while! This new video showcases the Pattern Recognition & Landmarking plugin that was unveiled at RCOMM 2010. This plugin is fantastic!  It analyzes your data, ranks the best … Continue reading

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What is the WhiBo plugin for Rapidminer?

Today’s guest post about an awesome new plugin for Rapidminer, is from Milan Vukicevic.  Although I walked in at the very end of his presentation at RCOMM 2010, I sat down with Milan on my last day and he gave … Continue reading

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Using the SVM RBF Kernel

I’m happy to announce that today is the first of a two part guest post series. Today’s guest post is by Marin Matijas, who gave a presentation at RCOMM 2010 about Short Term Load Forecasting using Support Vector Machines (SVM). … Continue reading

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Text Mining Annual Reports

I’m playing around with Rapidminer’s powerful text mining tools to dig through annual reports this evening and I’m making progress.  Rapidminer can text mine all sorts of formats but the operators are still a bit tough to use if you … Continue reading

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The Whirlwind that was RCOMM – Part 2

Well the jet lag finally caught up to me so I apologize for this late post on RCOMM. Thursday morning was kicked off by yours truly, and I was deeply humbled that the Rapid-I team asked me to one of … Continue reading

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The Whirlwind that was RCOMM – Part 1

Incorporating and expanding on my first RCOMM 2010 post, I going to write about the various presentations that I found highly interesting and applicable to financial data mining.  I walked in on Milan Vukiecevic, who gave a talk about an … Continue reading

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Sitting in Frankfurt

Yes, I’m about to board my plane back to the USA so this post will have to be a bit short.  I do owe you guys a long series of posts (and new videos) about my time in Dortmund with … Continue reading

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RCOMM 2010 – Having A Blast!

Wow, RCOMM 2010 is so much fun! After an exhausting flight to Frankfurt, I made it to RCOMM 2010 late Tuesday afternoon.  I got to listen to two great talks so far and watch a hilarious game show, “Who wants to be … Continue reading

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My Experiment Community

I recently installed the new MyExperiment Community plugin for Rapidminer after it was first suggested on my forums by a poster/reader (hat tip to Ronmac).  I’m glad I did because this plugin enables me to access, upload, and download Rapidminer … Continue reading

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Neural Market Trends on LinkedIn

I created a company profile for Neural Market Trends on LinkedIn and would love for my readers to follow me on there. You can do so by clicking on the button below:

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Rapidminer & R – Together At Last!

It’s ALMOST here, the R extension in Rapidminer is just one more week away!!! If you want a sneak peak of it, check out this intro video by Ralf Klinkenberg on the R extension. With the new GUI in 5.X … Continue reading

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What is Data Mining?

My old college professor, Dr. Stephan Kudyba, explains what Data Mining is for newbies. His data mining class is the reason why I started Neural Market Trends.

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