Constructive political criticism online is hard to find. Discussions quickly turn mean, and even minor disagreements can escalate into major arguments. Messages often get lost if one’s audience is too small, and misunderstood words can lead to backlash. That’s where Soap comes in—a new kind of social platform designed to change the way we talk…
Category: Data Science
Based News Reader
This Python project fetches the latest Google News RSS headlines for a user-supplied list of topics and regularly updates a static HTML page. It uses Google Gemini to prioritize headlines and also to update a global outlook section biweekly. Designed to be scheduled with cron on any Unix-based system. news.blakerayvid.com How It Works
TQQQ Trading Algorithm
Developing a successful trading algorithm is about finding the right balance between capturing market gains and managing risks. In this capstone project for the Flatiron School Data Science Bootcamp, I created and refined a QuantConnect trading algorithm that combines a dynamic strategy for SPY with a risk-managed approach for TQQQ. The goal was to optimize…
Sentiment Classifier
My Flatiron School Data Science Bootcamp Phase 3 Project was to address the business problem of brand reputation management by monitoring and analyzing Twitter sentiment. The goal was to develop a machine learning model that can correctly classify tweets as positive, negative, or neutral, and provide insights to improve brand perception and engagement strategies. View…
Covid Report NYC
View the latest Covid-19 case, hospitalization, and death trends for New York City in a simple web interface. https://covidreportnyc.netlify.app View on GitHub
Epidemic Simulator
This Colab notebook simulates a disease spreading through a community in random motion. Individuals are represented as points undergoing independent random walks in a bounded 2D environment. Parameters include: the population size, the average population density, the number of times to evolve the system, the number of trials to conduct, and the fraction of the…