Neural Market Trends

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

This blog had 2,949 visits, 7,418 page views, avg 2.52 pages/view, and an avg time on site of 3:31 minutes.

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 helps them understand the buying habits of their customers, and where to target their efforts.  A Decision Tree model helps segment your market and identify the "sweet spot" in your customer base.

Check back over the next two weeks for this video tutorial.  I'll show you how to mine your data and start being a more effective marketer in under 10 minutes.

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 5.0. Enjoy!

Video download link (HQ): Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #3

See the Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #2 post for the data files used in this video

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 financial world. Please feel free to reach out to me because I would love to connect with you! 

But I do ask for a small favor in return…

If you are a reader of Neural Market Trends, and you enjoy my video tutorials and content, please take a moment to write a recommendation for the site. Your candid thoughts and recommendations are very important to the success of this blog and it allows me to grow this site by providing my readers with free Rapidminer tutorials.

The information I share on this site via my videos and tutorials is extremely valuable and free, there’s nothing like this available on the Internet that I know of. Please consider my above request, it would be greatly appreciated.

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 import training and prediction data, add a classification learner, and apply the model, and get the results.

Video download link (HQ): Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #2

The data files you will need to follow along are Excel spreadsheets below:

Training data set: gold_final_input

Prediction data set: ga-gold

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 update on a weekly basis until I've redone all my previous tutorials and added some new ones. I expect that amount to be about 10 or so videos.

Next I created a Facebook Fan Page for my readers to join.  Please note, I usually don't add thousands of friends on FB so if you request me as a friend and I don't add you, please don't be angry or upset.  I'm just very protective and secretive with my inner circle.  Please, instead, join the Facebook Fan Page and interact with me there.

I'm also trying out the Google Friend Connect, which you see in the right sidebar, and I'm available via GTalk.  Please note, that I'm usually very busy from 7AM to 5PM Eastern Time, so chatting is limited to non-existent that time. If you catch me before or after that time, ask me questions, chat with me about Rapidminer ideas, or just say hello.

And finally, I'm still on Twitter but only use it to broadcast my blog posts.  It's too noisy for me.

2010 is going to rock!

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 spend more time there again digging through his posts and I suggest my readers do too.