I recently heard about a new tool called Google Correlate that helps one finds Google search patterns that correspond to (i.e. correlate with) real-world trends.For those that don't get it yet, the tool allows one to type in a search term and the tool ... [Read more...]

I recently ran across some data from comScore networks. The data contains results from surveys from a number of households across the US with demographic information (ethnicity, household income, household size, state, zipcode, etc.) along with whether... [Read more...]

(Obligatory Warning: This post should not be considered investment advice. The author(s) of this blog are not certified financial analysts. Any analysis presented here is meant only as an opinion. Following our opinion could end up losing you a lot of ... [Read more...]

For an integer programming class, Andrew and I were interested in seeing if some ideas from modern portfolio theory could be used to "beat the market."In particular, our goals were the following:For a particular time period, compute the covariance... [Read more...]