Using Google Cloud Spanner to measure social media influence over stock market

I wanted to use the now generally available Cloud Spanner database to write an app that would track stock prices and social media sentiment to identify potential correlation. To test even the validity of this approach I put together a Go app that subscribes to Twitter stream for all companies defined in the Stocks table and scores each event against the Google NLP API while comparing the user sentiment against the stock ask price against Yahoo API. ...

2017-05-16 · 2 min · Mark Chmarny

Twitter Sentiment Analysis in Go using Google NLP API

As part of my ramp up on Google APIs I wanted to create a project that would allow me some practical exercise in a context of a real application. TFeel (short for Twitter Feeling) is a simple sentiment analyses over tweeter data for specific Twitter search terms using Google Cloud services: ...

2017-05-12 · 1 min · Mark Chmarny

Vision of smarter thingz - project in adaptive metric flow modeling

Over the holidays, as many of us do, I embarked on a little extra-curriculum development effort I called thingz.io. I was driven by the pattern I’d observed in Data Center (DC) monitoring products; although that pattern also exists in many of today’s Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. ...

2016-04-27 · 3 min · Mark Chmarny