My name is Yusuf. I’m a data scientist in Berlin. This blog is about machine learning, statistics, backend development, and anything else that might catch my eye.
They say that the best way to learn is to teach someone else. So here we go…
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A Tale of Two Tours
What do Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift have in common? Beyond breakup ballads and impressive collections of musical accolades and exes, Sheeran and Swift dominated the charts for gross revenue from tours in 2018 (More precisely, Sheeran has broken records for the highest-grossing tour of all time), collectively taking in 1 in every 7 dollars spent on the top 100 tours of 2018. Even more surprising is how they were able to achieve this. Sheeran... -
Using NLP and Deep Learning to Predict Stock Price Movememnts
In the financial services and banking industry, armies of analysts are dedicated to pouring over, analyzing, and attempting to quantify qualitative data from news and SEC mandated reporting. The vast amount of textual and quantitative information involved in analyzing a company means that an analyst is dedicated to covering only a few companies, and the process of digging through dry reports is hardly the sexiest job on Wall Street. Nonetheless, equity research departments are vital... -
How Much is Your Concert Ticket Really Worth?
If you are a live music aficionado, you probably have that one friend who bragged about how she made a thousand dollars flipping Coachella tickets, or tickets for some other event that are expensive and difficult to obtain. You’ve probably struggled to snag affordable tickets off of Facebook for that one event you were dying to go to, then also bought tickets off of someone for so cheap you were afraid it was a scam....
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