Can you predict the levels of smog in your city using machine learning? We gave it a try by building an app. The results were surprising. (more…)
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Google Trends has been used and abused since 2004. It's a powerful, half-baked tool provided by Google which provides search result trends. Given the re... (more…)
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This is the first of a series of posts on the task of applying machine learning for intraday stock price/return prediction. Price prediction is extremely crucial to most trading firms. People have been using various prediction techniques for many years. W... (more…)
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Among the many R packages, there is the outbreaks package. It contains datasets on epidemics, on of which is from the 2013 outbreak of influenza A H7N9 in China, as analysed by Kucharski et al. (2014):
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