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In this post I will explain some of the steps I took in order to train a neural network from earning call transcripts, which I gathered from Seeking Alpha. First using a webscraper in order to get the text, I was able to transform them into their stem terms (in order to reduce the numberContinue reading “Neural networks, natural language processing, and earning call transcripts”

I tend to be highly critical of political commentators, and it is not uncommon for me to get them in my recommended section on YouTube. One of the aspects that intrigues me is the use of advanced rhetoric to appeal to large masses of people, usually through founding their arguments on ideological stands. This droveContinue reading “Sentiment analysis on YouTube captions”

Societies are formed under an environment that is ultimately constrained by the availability of natural resources. It is the accessibility of these raw materials that inevitably influence the ability to produce of a country and consequently their level of development. Some nations have found a way around this problem, as the prime minister of theContinue reading “Colonialism heritage as a co-founding variable for development”

It seems like we are forced, for a lack of a better word, to live our lives under a constrained optimization problem where we are (ideally) given the freedom to choose where to allocate our time. This has implications on how we wish to distribute our labour according to our preferences, whether it is atContinue reading “THE CONSEQUENCES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND HOUSEHOLD LABOUR”

In order to interpret the content of the posts in the ‘trending’ section, we will be using a webdriver that fetches the text and run it through the NRC Emotion Lexicon sentiment analysis. Some interesting findings were how the news section seemed to be filled with more sentiment-loaded words relative to the rest of theContinue reading “GETTR”

There are only a few acts more daring than encouraging people to think for themselves, but what does it mean to ‘think’? By following the computational theory of mind, we are exploring cognition the same way we would explore any information processing system. That is, we start describing ‘thinking’ as computing and ‘beliefs’ as information.Continue reading “Compute before you speak”

Sentiment analysis is a great way to take advantage of open-source technology in order to develop private research. In this project I automated a web-scraper that fetched COVID-19 and climate change headings from google news during 30 consecutive days. By studying what language is employed, I hope to get a glimpse of what is theContinue reading “Sentiment analysis: COVID-19 & Climate change”

Rendering networks in a three-dimensional space has interesting implications for social network analysis. In order to help differentiate this method from its 2D counterpart, I have laid an example of a typical graph and multiple examples of its 3D rendering (see figures below). One of the points I hope to get across with these visualizationsContinue reading “Rendering networks in a three-dimensional space”

In finance, technical analysis is an analysis methodology for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. While there has been a lot of attempts at accurately predicting the financial market, most of them have been futile due to a simple reason. The market is ran byContinue reading “Automating technical analysis for intraday trading”

Social sciences are often at a disadvantage when they are used to objectively describe our world. This is not because they are naturally inferior to more empirical sciences such as biology and physics but rather because they are quite hard to quantify. However, with the rise of machine learning and computational models, this might beContinue reading “Modelling Through Networks”