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Mar 5, 2019
Using Wordcloud & Twitter's Api for Realtime Superbowl Tweet Analysis
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Searchterm: “Tom Brady”, Timeframe: 1st hour of Superbowl game Summary The WordCloud library allows users to create generated word clouds as seen above. This particular cloud was generated by searching for “Tom Brady” in tweets tweeted during the Superbowl game itself. Using the Twitter-API, content creaters can create a custom...
Feb 9, 2019
Using Twitter Api for Superbowl Realtime Tweet Analysis
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Writers are constantly looking at Twitter as a source to understand how a story is changing and what aspects of the story readers are interested in. For writers, having an understanding of how a story is playing out can be crucial to creating meaningful content. Using the Twitter-API, content creaters...
Dec 15, 2018
Perspective from Francois Fenelon on Suffering
faith
An excerpt from the book, The One Year Book of Encouragement, by Harold Myra. Why Suffer? Francois Fenelon asks, “Do you wonder why God has to make it so hard on you? Why doesn’t he make you good without making you miserable in the meantime?” Whatever our view of God’s...
Dec 10, 2018
Adding User Data About Viewed Products
code
I wanted to add a feature to my recent ecommerce app and retain information about products that the customer has viewed. After saving the objects that the customer has used to the database, I want display those products on a products page so that they might be inclined to visit...
Nov 27, 2018
Quantopian - Open Interest for Futures
code, finance
For, the past several days, I had been looking if there was a way to enter open interest data for Futures in the the Quantopian platform to play around with it. From the the docs, there isn’t a way to do this. The Quantopian sandbox is fairly contained. You can’t...
Nov 18, 2018
Quantopian Long Trading Model
code, finance
includes: Chart, Code Summary The model finds small cap equities that have dropped at least 8% during the previous trading day and holds them for 5 days. The trading model beats the S&P 500 during some periods of time and can be used when its relative performance has been poor....
Nov 8, 2018
Ecommerce - Product Listing and Shopping Cart(Session) Work
code
For the past fiew days, I’ve been looking at how to add recently viewed products to the customers product pages. This seems to bee currently working so that the customer will see the past four or five products that they’ve viewed. This may encourage them to go back to the...
Oct 29, 2018
Ecommerce - Product Listing and Shopping Cart(Session) Work
code
After going through this lengthy tutorial, I was able to get a working shopping cart going on my Django site. You can now add products to the site and then add them to your shopping cart even if you are not logged in. After you login, your items are there...
Oct 22, 2018
Django Session, Getting a Shpping Cart Working
code
For the past few days, I’ve been working through a shopping cart tutorial, and figuring out how to create a shopping cart in an app using Session. I often thought about session before I used it here, and the different ways a session can work. A session stays in place,...
Oct 11, 2018
Postgres ETL in Python - A taste of database management
code
After looking at an opportunity to work on ETL, I decided to go through a tutorial and work out a program that would do some extraction in Postgres. The code here looks pretty good but there were some changes that needed to be made from Python 2 to 3. The...
Oct 10, 2018
Day 2
code
Today I’ll be writing some blog posts and filling in the blanks for some of the past few months of coding. I am working on a Django e-commerce app at night and fixing some formatting issues on my blog during the day. Hope it all works!
Oct 8, 2018
Today's Day One, A Day Late
code
After thinking about starting a blog for several months, I finally thought it was a good idea and started one up. It was supposed to be done by yesterday, but I had several issues getting the Jeckyll site up on _github pages I hope to be able to communicate some...
Sep 20, 2018
Quantopian Trading Platform Analysis and Testing
code finance
[adapted from previous journal] Quantopian is a backtesting platform for trading. It is used by many to test high frequency trading strategies I have been working with it quite a bit lately looking for opportunties and seeing how they work. I have been using a strategy that seems to get...

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An excerpt from the book, The One Year Book of Encouragement, by Harold Myra. Why Suffer? Francois Fenelon asks, “Do you wonder why God has to make it so hard on you? Why doesn’t he make you good without making you miserable in the meantime?” Whatever our view of God’s...

I wanted to add a feature to my recent ecommerce app and retain information about products that the customer has viewed. After saving the objects that the customer has used to the database, I want display those products on a products page so that they might be inclined to visit...

For, the past several days, I had been looking if there was a way to enter open interest data for Futures in the the Quantopian platform to play around with it. From the the docs, there isn’t a way to do this. The Quantopian sandbox is fairly contained. You can’t...

includes: Chart, Code Summary The model finds small cap equities that have dropped at least 8% during the previous trading day and holds them for 5 days. The trading model beats the S&P 500 during some periods of time and can be used when its relative performance has been poor....

For the past fiew days, I’ve been looking at how to add recently viewed products to the customers product pages. This seems to bee currently working so that the customer will see the past four or five products that they’ve viewed. This may encourage them to go back to the...

After going through this lengthy tutorial, I was able to get a working shopping cart going on my Django site. You can now add products to the site and then add them to your shopping cart even if you are not logged in. After you login, your items are there...

For the past few days, I’ve been working through a shopping cart tutorial, and figuring out how to create a shopping cart in an app using Session. I often thought about session before I used it here, and the different ways a session can work. A session stays in place,...

After looking at an opportunity to work on ETL, I decided to go through a tutorial and work out a program that would do some extraction in Postgres. The code here looks pretty good but there were some changes that needed to be made from Python 2 to 3. The...

Today I’ll be writing some blog posts and filling in the blanks for some of the past few months of coding. I am working on a Django e-commerce app at night and fixing some formatting issues on my blog during the day. Hope it all works!

After thinking about starting a blog for several months, I finally thought it was a good idea and started one up. It was supposed to be done by yesterday, but I had several issues getting the Jeckyll site up on _github pages I hope to be able to communicate some...

[adapted from previous journal] Quantopian is a backtesting platform for trading. It is used by many to test high frequency trading strategies I have been working with it quite a bit lately looking for opportunties and seeing how they work. I have been using a strategy that seems to get...