Handouts

Handouts for Students
(as announced in class):

• Software Tutorials, Software Patch, Job Information (from ForecastX)

• Fremantle Container (TEU) Shipment Data
• Pattern Recognition in Baseball
• Pattern Recognition in Football
• From MIT's Computers Watching Football
• Staganography Example
• Download Steganote Program (Zipped)
• Football Challenge
• Cryptanalysis Hints (for use in deciphering the syllabus)

Frequency Counter Software for Pattern Analysis
Online Frequency Counter and Helper
Cryptanalysis Hints
Letter Frequencies in English
Cryptographic Patterns in Music (from Wired magazine)

• Brainsize
• Ersatz Data (right-click to download)
• ForecastX Training Set
• "Suiting Up" Article on Correlation
• Faculty Salary Data (Correlation)
• Draft Lottery (Correlation)
• Taller Equals Smarter Article
• Data Into Sound
• Simpon's Paradox

Bass Model Articles

• Diffusion Speed Across Countries and Products
• CD Adoptions Practice Data Set
• Forecasting Diffusion of a New Technology Prior to Product Launch
• Bass Model In Action
• New Product Forecasting
• Regression Activity (Numb3rs)
• Chapter 1 Case #1 - A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Chapter 1 Case #2 - An Introduction to Trend in Time Series Data
• Chapter 2 Case #3 - Are Stock Rates of Return Normally Distributed?
• Chapter 2 Case #4 - A Look at Some Fundamental Economic Relationships
• Chapter 3 Case #5 - Technical Analysis of the Stock Market
• Chapter 3 Case #6 - Forecasting the Unemployment Rate
• Chapter 4 Case #7 - Estimating Intel's Financial Beta
• Chapter 4 Case #8 - Autocorrelation and Spurious Regression
• Chapter 5 Case #9 - Near Multicollinearity
• Chapter 5 Case #10 - Dealing With Seasonal Data
• Chapter 6 Case #11 - Forecasting the Federal Budget Deficit Using Time-Series Decomposition
• Chapter 6 Case #12 - Trend Reversal and Foreign Car Sales
• Chapter 7 Case #13 - Forecasting The Federal Budget Deficit Revisited
• Chapter 7 Case #14 - Forecasting Foreign Car Sales, Once Again
• Chapter 8 Case #15 - Forecast Combination With Linear and Nonlinear Trend
• Chapter 8 Case #16 - Seasonal Air Travel and Forecast Combination
• Forecasting Challenge
• Smoothing Assignment
• "Data and Stories" Assignments
• Motorola Dataset
• Oaks Dataset
• FootyForecast (European Soccer Prediction Tool)
• The Wisdom of Crowds

Data Mining

• Predictive Analytics Terminology
• Data Mining Data Sets
• Data Mining Exercises
• Monty Hall Problem
• Information Entropy - How Hard Can It Be?

Crypto Challenge Rules

• Frequency Counter Software for Pattern Analysis
• Cryptanalysis Hints
• Letter Frequencies in English

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