Clemson Students are Wicked Smart with Radian6

So, a group of my kids in creative inquiry just rocked my world.  They're beating the snot out of the market using Radian6 to predict Forex.  Here is the abstract from their project!

Kudos to the kids.  I need to turn over my retirement account to them!

Here is their abstract for the project:

Forex, the foreign currency exchange market, is very similar to Wall
Street’s stock market, except instead of measuring the health of
corporations, Forex gauges the welfare of countries and their
respective units of currency. Through the broker, Forex.com, an
American adult (i.e. an 18-year-old college freshman) can run some
day-trading experiments with real money on a 50:1 leverage. By
observing the graphs of the currency value fluctuations, one can
conjecture as to which currency in a pair will dominate in the near
future and attempt to profit on it. After some intense research and
crude experiments in 2011, a practice account was opened with TD
Ameritrade in order to dissect the trend between the Forex market and
Twitter posts. In particular, the fluctuations of the EUR/USD pair
were scrutinized, and models were fabricated in order to turn the
Twitter feed into a consistent profit.

Clemson "presents social" @ SC11

SC11 poster crafted by Barbara Weaver, CCIT Lead for the SMLC

While standing up the Center, the SMLC team participated in SC11.  SC11 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. 


A team of faculty, staff, and graduate students had the opportunity to meet with the "IT Crowd" and discuss how to better visualize, research, and teach about the Social Web.  We had a chance to meet folks from Dell's command center and learn more about how they're using to connect with their customers.

Next Fall, we're looking forward to participating in SC12 in Salt Lake City, Utah - and showcasing how the Social Web synchs up with HPC to generate value for Clemson University and Higher Education!