Monthly Archives: August 2017

Decrypt Emotion with our Web App…and learn APIs in R

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts!     An API is a way for one piece of software to interact with another application.  API stands for “application program interface” allowing your application or … Continue reading

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Is Your New Year’s resolution Really working out?

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts!   With the holidays long gone and likely everyone’s New Year’s resolutions along with it I figured I would spend some time working with data instead of … Continue reading

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How close am I to an Amazon, Wal-Mart or Target Warehouse? Visualizing geospatial Information in R.

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts!   In the last post you saw the “Traveling Santa Problem” which attempts to efficiently route Santa to all US warehouses from Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target.  Now … Continue reading

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Mapping Amazon, Wal-Mart & Target Warehouses: Which route would Santa take to visit every warehouse in the US?

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts!   Let’s face it, if you’re American and you celebrate Christmas chances are you have visited Target, Wal-Mart or shopped at amazon.com this holiday season.  Even if … Continue reading

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Amazon will make $41B this Holiday Season! Forecasting Quarterly Revenue

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts!   The holiday shopping season is in full swing! The economy is relatively strong compared to a few years back and so retail sales are probably going … Continue reading

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Forecasting Amazon Holiday Sales: Gathering, Organizing & Exploration

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts!   When I worked at Amazon more than 3 years ago our holiday season was always an adrenaline rush. My role was in customer service operations. We … Continue reading

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Text Mining Trump Speeches Part 3: Topic Modeling, Trump fixated on Hillary

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts!   In this blog post I revisit the original 10 speeches from Donald Trump.  If you missed the background check out the first and second posts.  Within those posts you can … Continue reading

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Trump and Clinton Speeches, Step 2: Trump is a Negative Sophomore and Clinton is a positive one!

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts! Looks like the presidential race is heating up!  Many polls have the candidates in a tight race.  Just after the debate both Clinton and Trump proclaimed “victory.” … Continue reading

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Trump and Clinton Speeches, Step 1: Text Mining

This post was originally published at ODSC. Check out their curated blog posts! Part 1 Obtaining Transcripts for Campaign Trail Speeches The political season is long and arduous. As a former Ohioan I dreaded any election year because it is … Continue reading

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Intro to Text mining using R

Abstract: Attendees will learn the foundations of text mining approaches in addition to learn basic text mining scripting functions used in R. The audience will learn what text mining is, then perform primary text mining such as keyword scanning, dendogram … Continue reading

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