/// <summary>
/// This method is called to determine the birth year for a person. It
/// obtains 100 web pages that Yahoo returns for that person. Each of these
/// pages is then searched for the birth year of that person. Which ever year
/// is selected the largest number of times is selected as the birth year.
/// </summary>
public void Process()
{
ReadCSV famous = new ReadCSV("famous.csv");
Report("Building training data from list of famous people.");
DateTime started = new DateTime();
this.totalTasks = 0;
while (famous.Next())
{
String name = famous.Get("Person");
int year = famous.GetInt("Year");
CollectionWorker worker = new CollectionWorker(this, name,
year);
worker.Call();
this.totalTasks++;
}
long length = (DateTime.Now - started).Ticks;
length /= 1000L;
length /= 60;
Console.WriteLine("Took " + length
+ " minutes to collect training data from the Internet.");
Console.WriteLine("Writing training file");
WriteTrainingFile();
}
public void loadPrime(String primeFilename)
{
ReadCSV csv = new ReadCSV(primeFilename);
while (csv.Next())
{
DateTime date = csv.GetDate("date");
double rate = csv.GetDouble("prime");
InterestRate ir = new InterestRate(date, rate);
this.rates.Add(ir);
}
csv.Close();
this.rates.Sort();
}
public void loadSP500(String sp500Filename)
{
ReadCSV csv = new ReadCSV(sp500Filename);
while (csv.Next())
{
DateTime date = csv.GetDate("date");
double amount = csv.GetDouble("adj close");
FinancialSample sample = new FinancialSample();
sample.setAmount(amount);
sample.setDate(date);
this.samples.Add(sample);
}
csv.Close();
this.samples.Sort();
}