Doing Statistics in awk

One exercise that offers a lot of interesting challenges in coding is to use a programming language for an application that it's not intended to be used for. Writing a Fortran compiler in TECO and solving the Towers of Hanoi problem in the troff text formatter are two examples from the legendary Hacker Purity Test. …

Analyzing Twitter Analytics Data in R

I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to become popular on Twitter. It's pretty much impossible if you're not already a celebrity or public figure, but I figured I'd try to maximize my success anyway. I did some data analysis using CSV data that I exported from the Twitter Analytics page. …

Analyzing WordPress Analytics Data in R

So a few days ago I talked about my recent obsession with data and how I started tabulating, charting, and analyzing SEO and similar data in Microsoft Works. Now I will talk about the subsequent data analyses that I did using the R programming language. Let's get to it... What is R? I would describe …

Data Analysis: Retro Edition with Microsoft Works 3.0

So recently I've started getting into some more data-oriented stuff - statistics, regression analysis, etc. It started with some spreadsheets and graphs that I was making in Microsoft Works and gradually transitioned into data analysis using R and eventually into actual AI programming. To chronicle this recent evolution properly, I think it best to start …

Corona-Chan Project, Part 5: Final Model-Fitting Program

The linear relationship indicated by the graph shown in Part 4 of this series has shed light on something I overlooked when I was doing that part of the research. Specifically, it indicates that we can actually reduce the system of equations being graphed to a system of two linear equations in two variables. For …

Corona-Chan Project, Part 4: Fitting the Model to the Data

So the last business week was pretty fucking insane. We had a three-day bull run in the stock market due to the Coronavirus bill being authored by Congress, and then for some reason the stock market crashed again after the bill passed. It's all over the place, and probably will continue to be that way …

Corona-Chan Project, Part 3: Analyzing the Prediction Function

This article will be building on my research in the previous two articles on the Corona-Chan Project, so if you haven't read Parts 1 and 2, you might want to go back and do that: Project for Quarantine Period: Tracking the Coronavirus Outbreak Using Calculus and C Corona-Chan Project Update: Smoothing the Prediction Function First …

Corona-Chan Project Update: Smoothing the Prediction Function

In the previous article I talked about how I'm using sophisticated data analysis techniques to predict when the stock market will hit rock bottom due to the Coronavirus recession, pointing to the optimal time to invest in cheap stocks that are guaranteed to go up. In that article I shared a C program I wrote …

Project for Quarantine Period: Tracking the Coronavirus Outbreak Using Calculus and C Programming

So due to the mainstream media overhyping the Coronavirus epidemic and treating it like the end of the world so they can get better ratings and make a ton of money by generating mass panic, virtually every business and facility across my country has shut down at least for the next few weeks (I say …