Not long ago, Quantopian allowed you to live trade algorithms developed with their software. Sadly they no longer let you do that. It was a painful process but I’ve figured out how to use Interactive Brokers API to create an algorithmic trading bot and run it on a server. In this post I’ll cover how… Read More How to Create an Algo Trading Bot
When I first made a chatbot, I wanted to communicate to it by texting. First thing I did was google “texting python” and a bunch of articles using Twilio came up. I was so excited that Twilio was well documented and easy to set up. But after a year they booted my free account. So… Read More Texting Without Twilio
Last week, I wrote about using the Google Maps API to visualize travel times according to when you want to leave by using their “Depart at” feature to simulate traffic. This week I took it a step further and made an interactive version. Go give it a try next time you have to drive somewhere, especially… Read More Visualization Vednesday: Travel Times Interactive Version
Algorithmia was recently in the news for receiving Series A funding from Google. The concept is pretty cool. Create a marketplace for machine learning algorithms that allows companies without a large R&D team to use algorithms as a black box. Algorithmia: How it works I created an account and was given “credits” to call algorithms.… Read More Algorithmia for Lolcat OCR Review
I’m starting a new posting series called “Visualization Vednesday” where I’ll talk about or create a visualization and critique it. For this first post, let’s talk about Google Maps and travel times. Travel Times Problem Yesterday I had to drive home from my parents house to go to dinner with my grandma who had just… Read More Visualization Vednesday: Travel Times