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!

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)!

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

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.

$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 50 WMA this week, then I'd see we're in the clear until we're not.

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!

Video download link: Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorial #1

PS: I’m glad to be back guys. Leave me a comment if you want more, please stroke my fragile ego. LOL.

PPS: My Youtube Channel is here: Neuralmarkettrends1

PPPS: For those who want to follow along, see the original GE.xls file.