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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Computers That Trade on the News

Wall Street Traders Using Text Analysis Tools


The number-crunchers on Wall Street are starting to crunch something else: the news.
Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blog posts and evenTwitter messages — and then letting the machines decide what it all means for the markets

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Using Cross Tabulation

In this article, I introduce the essential statistics necessary for viewers of cross tabulation tables to obtain the power that these tables offer.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Data Mining White Paper

I address in this monograph a number of techniques for those without a great deal of training to engage in some productive methods for mining data -- from Text Mining, through Exploratory Data Analysis, to a focus on the use of Contingency Tables, using some advanced methods of text tagging.