Tweetdeck and Twitter Analytics Scraping with R

Twitter offers tools to analyze tweet performance of your own accounts via twitter analytics and the accounts of others via tweetdeck. Unfortunately, the platforms have limited data export functionality; there is not a clean easy way to export data from the web user...

Out of Home Advertising Research with Python

Photo by Terabass from wikimedia Almost everyone is familiar with the phrase “location, location, location” when evaluating a property. Being mindful of location when purchasing out of home advertising placements is key to running successful outdoor...

Short Term Directional Equity Forecasting with SVMs and R

This post outlines a framework for forecasting short term (i.e. daily tick data) directional movements of equity prices. The method used here relies on support vector machines and treats the system like a Markov Chain. Historical data is downloaded from stooq.com....

Multiple Variant Testing with R

This post overviews code for testing multiple variants using Bayesian statistics. It is especially useful when there is a defined action that can be classified as a success (i.e. a click or conversion) and when we have complete information about the number of trials...